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3 Document classes
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The document's overall class is defined with this command, which is
normally the first command in a LaTeX source file.

     \documentclass[OPTIONS]{CLASS}

   The following document CLASS names are built into LaTeX.  (Many other
document classes are available as separate packages; Note: Overview.)

'article'
     For a journal article, a presentation, and miscellaneous general
     use.

'book'
     Full-length books, including chapters and possibly including front
     matter, such as a preface, and back matter, such as an appendix
     (Note: Front/back matter).

'letter'
     Mail, optionally including mailing labels (Note: Letters).

'report'
     For documents of length between an 'article' and a 'book', such as
     technical reports or theses, which may contain several chapters.

'slides'
     For slide presentations--rarely used today.  In its place the
     'beamer' package is perhaps the most prevalent (Note: beamer
     template).

   Standard OPTIONS are described in the next section.

Document class options

Global options.

Additional packages

Bring in packages.

Class and package construction

Create new classes and packages.