In LATEX~2.09, only document styles could have options such as
|twoside| or |draft|. In LATEX2e<#107#><#107#>, both classes and packages are
allowed to have options. For example, to specify a two-sided article
with graphics using the |dvips| driver, you write:
verbatim39#
It is possible for packages to share common options. For example,
you could, in addition, load the |color| package by specifying:
verbatim40#
But because | allows more than one package to be listed,
this can be shortened to:
verbatim41#
In addition, packages will also use each option given to
the | command (if they know what to do with it), so you
could also write:
verbatim42#
Class and package options are covered in more detail in
and in .