Document class options (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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### 3.1 Document class options

You can specify global options or class options to the `\documentclass` command by enclosing them in square brackets. To specify more than one option, separate them with a comma.

    \documentclass[option1,option2,...]{class}

Here is the list of the standard class options.

All of the standard classes except `slides` accept the following options for selecting the typeface size (default is `10pt`):

    10pt  11pt  12pt

All of the standard classes accept these options for selecting the paper size (these show height by width):

`a4paper`

  210 by 297mm (about 8.25 by 11.75 inches)

`a5paper`

  148 by 210mm (about 5.8 by 8.3 inches)

`b5paper`

  176 by 250mm (about 6.9 by 9.8 inches)

`executivepaper`

  7.25 by 10.5 inches

`legalpaper`

  8.5 by 14 inches

`letterpaper`

  8.5 by 11 inches (the default)

When using one of the engines pdfLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, or XeLaTeX (see TeX engines), options other than `letterpaper` set the print area but you must also set the physical paper size. One way to do that is to put `\pdfpagewidth=\paperwidth` and `\pdfpageheight=\paperheight` in your document’s preamble.

The `geometry` package provides flexible ways of setting the print area and physical page size.

Miscellaneous other options:

`draft`
`final`

  Mark (`draft`) or do not mark (`final`) overfull boxes with a black box in the margin; default is `final`.

`fleqn`

  Put displayed formulas flush left; default is centered.

`landscape`

  Selects landscape format; default is portrait.

`leqno`

  Put equation numbers on the left side of equations; default is the right side.

`openbib`

  Use “open” bibliography format.

`titlepage`
`notitlepage`

  Specifies whether there is a separate page for the title information and for the abstract also, if there is one. The default for the `report` class is `titlepage`, for the other classes it is `notitlepage`.

The following options are not available with the `slides` class.

`onecolumn`
`twocolumn`

  Typeset in one or two columns; default is `onecolumn`.

`oneside`
`twoside`

  Selects one- or two-sided layout; default is `oneside`, except that in the `book` class the default is `twoside`.

  For one-sided printing, the text is centered on the page. For two-sided printing, the `\evensidemargin` (`\oddsidemargin`) parameter determines the distance on even (odd) numbered pages between the left side of the page and the text’s left margin, with `\oddsidemargin` being 40% of the difference between `\paperwidth` and `\textwidth`, and `\evensidemargin` is the remainder.

`openright`
`openany`

  Determines if a chapter should start on a right-hand page; default is `openright` for `book`, and `openany` for `report`.

The `slides` class offers the option `clock` for printing the time at the bottom of each note.

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