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\classAbstract{book}
\label{class:book}


The \class{book} document class may be used as a starting point for
the creation of a book. It is described in the \LaTeX{} book.
Actually, most books will (or should) use a specifically designed
document class that builds upon \class{book}.

The following options are supported by this class: \option{a4paper},
\option{a5paper}, \option{b5paper}, \option{letterpaper},
\option{legalpaper}, \option{executivepaper}, \option{landscape},
\option{10pt}, \option{11pt}, \option{12pt}, \option{oneside},
\option{twoside}, \option{draft}, \option{final}, \option{titlepage},
\option{notitlepage}, \option{onecolumn}, \option{twocolumn},
\option{makeidx}, \option{makeindex}, \option{leqno}, \option{fleqn},
and \option{openbib}.
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It supports the pagestyles \pgsty{headings} and \pgsty{myheadings}.

The class uses the files \file{book.cls} and \file{bk*.clo}.


\endAbstract


\begin{rcslog}
$Log: book.gid,v $
\Revision 1.4 1994/02/01 20:50:07 schrod
Changed ``needs file[s] \dots'' to ``uses file[s] \dots'' This seems
(for me) to be better English.

\Revision 1.3 1994/01/31 21:14:20 schrod
Changed markup, use high-level tags instead of verbatim. This way we
can change the presentation and add automatic indexing, etc.

\Revision 1.2 1994/01/27 21:12:31 schrod
New descriptions for the core classes of \LaTeXe{}. Did also use new
markup that enables the inclusion in other documents as well. In
particular, the version history might be typeset this way.

\Revision 1.1 1994/01/17 18:18:08 detig
Updated english version to generic local guide for \LaTeX{} 2.09, both in
text and file structure.
Some parts (which will be subject to major changes with \LaTeXe{}) were
left untouched, though. Some style descriptions are still to be written,
their relevance must be checked, anyhow.

\end{rcslog}


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