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>>>>> rdubey@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (RD) writes:

RD> I often hear it that LaTeX/TeX makes headings (such as chapter, 
RD> section etc.) that are way too big and the spaces that it leaves
RD> around them is also more than necessary. Generally the people who have
RD> told this to me do not use LaTeX/TeX but prefer some PC based
RD> word processing software. So far this was not a problem for me, my
RD> standard approach being `TeX gurus know the best and I really know
RD> very little about typesetting'. 

The Dutch TeX Users' Group NTG has a style option `sober.sty' that does
exactly this.

How to get sober.sty from the archive at
	Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University:

NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu.

    Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be
    a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET
    usually works.  

by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between
about 20.00 and 0900 UTC).

    ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
    user name: anonymous or ftp
    password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu)
    cd /pub
    don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive,
    compressed or in any other way contains binary data.
    get TEX/NTG/sober.sty

by mail-server:

send the following message to
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server):

    begin
    path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
    send TEX/NTG/sober.sty
    end

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