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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label replstdcls</title>
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<h3>Replacing the standard classes</h3>
<p>People are forever concocting classes that replace the standard ones:
the present author produced an <i>ukart</i> class that used the
<i>sober</i> package, and a few British-specific things (such as
appear in the <i>babel</i> package's British-english
specialisation) in the 1980s, which is still occasionally used.
<p>Similar public efforts were available well back in the days of
LaTeX 2.09: a notable example, whose pleasing designs seem not to have
changed much over all that time, is the <i>ntgclass</i> bundle.
Each of the standard classes is replaced by a selection of classes,
named in Dutch, sometimes with a single numeric digit attached. So we
have classes <i>artikel2</i>, <i>rapport1</i>, <i>boek3</i> and
<i>brief</i>. These classes are moderately well documented in
English.
<p>The <i>KOMA-script</i> bundle (classes named <i>scr...</i>) are a
strong current contender. They are actively supported, are
comprehensive in their coverage of significant typesetting issues,
produce good-looking output and are well documented in both English
and German (<i>scrguien</i> in the distribution for English,
<i>scrguide</i> for German).
<p>The other comparable class is <i>memoir</i>. This aims to replace
<i>book</i> and <i>report</i> classes directly, and (like
<i>KOMA-script</i>) is comprehensive in its coverage of small issues.
<i>Memoir</i>'s documentation (<i>memman</i>) is very highly
spoken of, and its lengthy introductory section is regularly
recommended as a tutorial on typesetting.
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<dt><tt><i>KOMA-script bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.zip">macros/latex/contrib/koma-script</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>memoir.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.zip">macros/latex/contrib/memoir</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>NTGclass bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ntgclass.zip">macros/latex/contrib/ntgclass</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ntgclass.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ntgclass/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>sober.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/sober.sty">macros/latex209/contrib/misc/sober.sty</a>
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<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=replstdcls">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=replstdcls</a>
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