Document classes (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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## 3 Document classes

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; see 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 (see Front/back matter).

`letter`

  Mail, optionally including mailing labels (see 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 (see beamer template).

Standard options are described in the next section.

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