Declarations

Most of the work of a class or package is in defining new commands, or changing the appearance of documents. This is done in the body of the package, using commands such as | | or ||.

L^ATEX2_e provides several new commands to help class and package writers; these are described in detail in Section .

There are three things that every class file must contain: these are a definition of || and values for || and ||. So a minimal document class file is:

   \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
   \ProvidesClass{minimal}[1994/04/01 Minimal class]
   \renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont}
   \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in}
   \setlength{\textheight}{8in}