Custom latex style

Sometimes the best option to customize a document is to write a new class from scratch. This article explains the main structure and commands needed in a new class. The first thing to do before coding a new class is to determine whether you really need a new class or not. Another important thing to have in mind is the difference between packages and classes. Making the wrong choice can affect the flexibility of the final product. In the next subsections a more detailed description of the structure and a working example, exampleclass.

If you define a lot of new environments and commands, the preamble of your document will get quite long. In this situation, it is a good idea to create a LaTeX package or class containing all your command and environment definitions. It can be made dynamic enough to fit to all your future documents. Classes are. They are very similar, the main difference being that you can load only one class per document. A license is of great importance, either to protect your file, or to make it available for others. By default, LaTeX will allow the use of the ' ' characters for control sequences from within package and class files, but not from within an end-user document.

The creation of a LaTeX class allows one to specify all document requirements packages, input files, etc and layout specifications in a. An important feature of this template is the inclusion of a pair of custom class options which act as a toggle within the class to change document settings based on the class option supplied. This means the user of the.

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