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.
• Document class options: | Global options. | |
• Additional packages: | Bring in packages. | |
• Class and package construction: | Create new classes and packages. |