Re: Combining \layout variables

[Trevor Daniels]

David Kastrup wrote Tuesday, May 05, 2015 5:22 PM

>> Well, yes, I knew that, but the effect is that existing definitions
>> are overridden iff they appear later, while new definitions are added,
>> so definitions assigned early can act as defaults.
> 
> And why wouldn't that work in your use scenario?
> 
> What is wrong with setting a layout definition in the satb.ly template
> that then gets amended by the user?
> 

The answer to both these questions is that the satb.ly template
comes after the user's code in the input file.  So the overriding
operates the wrong way round.

Trevor