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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-clsvpkg.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-clsvpkg.html index 98120322eeb..b5b23e0c7b9 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-clsvpkg.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-clsvpkg.html @@ -2,24 +2,24 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label clsvpkg</title> </head><body> <h3>What are LaTeX classes and packages?</h3> -<p>Current LaTeX makes a distinction between the macros that define the +<p/>Current LaTeX makes a distinction between the macros that define the overall layout of a document, and the macros that tweak that layout (to one extent or another) to provide what the author <em>really</em> wants. -<p>The distinction was not very clear in LaTeX 2.09, and after some +<p/>The distinction was not very clear in LaTeX 2.09, and after some discussion (in the later stages of development of current LaTeX) the names “class” and “package” were applied to the two concepts. -<p>The idea is that a document’s <em>class</em> tells LaTeX what sort of +<p/>The idea is that a document’s <em>class</em> tells LaTeX what sort of document it’s dealing with, while the <em>packages</em> the document loads “refine” that overall specification. -<p>On the disc, the files only appear different by virtue of their name +<p/>On the disc, the files only appear different by virtue of their name “extension” — class files are called <code>*.cls</code> while package files are called <code>*.sty</code>. Thus we find that the LaTeX standard <i>article</i> class is represented on disc by a file called <i>article.cls</i>, while the <i>footmisc</i> package (which refines <i>article</i>’s definition of footnotes) is represented on disc by a file called <i>footmisc.sty</i>. -<p>The user defines the class of his document with the +<p/>The user defines the class of his document with the <code>\</code><code>documentclass</code> command (typically the first command in a document), and loads packages with the <code>\</code><code>usepackage</code> command. A document may have several <code>\</code><code>usepackage</code> commands, but it may have @@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ only one <code>\</code><code>documentclass</code> command. (Note that there are programming-interface versions of both commands, since a class may choose to load another class to refine its capabilities, and both classes and packages may choose to load other packages.) -<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=clsvpkg">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=clsvpkg</a> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=clsvpkg">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=clsvpkg</a> </body> |