We should probably give some glue to the renewenvironments commands

[amoodie]

This will help with LaTeX fitting to a page. E.g. bug #19.

Default article code is:

\newcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
                                   {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                   {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
                                   {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}
\newcommand\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
                                     {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
                                     {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
                                     {\normalfont\large\bfseries}}

The current compact_proposal code is (with changed spacing to match above):

\renewcommand{\section}{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
	{0.5\baselineskip}%
	{0.1\baselineskip}%
	{\fontseries{b}\selectfont\centering}}
\renewcommand{\subsection}{\@startsection	{subsection}{1}{\z@}%
	{0.2\baselineskip}%
	{0.1\baselineskip}%
	{\fontseries{b}\fontshape{it}\selectfont\raggedright}}

So I think we could just set the values in the second and third lines to have glue. This can be done as \@plus and \@minus or can utilize etoolbox's \gluedef{command}{glue-expression}. I have not experimented with this.

In a similar vein, we should define a few length terms and use them consistently through the style sheet. Something like \@bigskip and \@smallskip. This can be done with etoolbox:

\deflength{length}{glue expression}

\newlength{\@bigskip}
\deflength{\@bigskip}{glue-expression}