Chapter 4: Further Essential LATEX
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4.1 Document Classes and the Overall Structure The example on page 6 shows a full LATEX file, which begins with the command \documentclass{article} This command tells LATEX that the document is to have the article class. Other classes that are available include report, book, slides (superseded by beamer—see Appendix C), and letter. The different classes vary in the range of optional arguments that are available, and also in some of the formatting commands that are predefined. We concentrate in this section on information that applies to the article and report classes; Appendix C deals with the beamer class and Appendix D with the a0poster class. The article class is designed for relatively short documents, such as journal papers, while report is meant for longer works that are broken into chapters.