Remove hard coded blueprint width in template functions, replace with system for dynamic custom column widths

The most recent blueprint release seems to emphasize its ability to easily customize column and overall website widths without having to re-create the whole framework.

At http://www.jdclayton.com/blueprints_compress_a_walkthrough.html , Joshua Clayton says:

One of the purposes of the revamping of the Blueprint scripts was to eliminate the need for a lot of the other websites out there that help you build custom grids, semantic namespaces, etc.

To do this the blueprint code now comes with a simple ruby script that lets you customize your number of columns, width of column, and width of gutter, among other things. However, it isn't easy to use the custom generated css files that this script creates with this drupal blueprint theme. The standard blueprint 24 column layout is hard coded into some of the functions that create things like the body class and subsequent areas of the website.

I am interested in developing some flexibility in these functions to allow for these custom blueprint layouts. I don't want to go to far down that path though unless this type of contribution would be welcome in the theme. I wonder if the core intention for this theme is to be a base drupal theme with lots of very useful theme tricks, or a blueprint css framework wrapper for drupal. I sorta hope it can be both.

Thanks for any thoughts.