On Monday 19 November 2007 10:04, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Does anyone know of a chart or webpage that quickly compares book classes?
>
> I have used koma scrbook a lot. I recently started trying Memoir and also
> just the Book classes and see that have different features (like no
> subject/subtitle on first page).
>
> Does anyone of have a quick comparison reference of the different book
> classes?
>
> If not, what do you prefer and why?
>
> Maybe the answers could be summarized on a wiki page.
Hi Jeremy,
This is not exactly responsive to your question but on the subject of choosing
a book document class I have a strong opinion: Namely, one should never
consider frontmatter needs in picking a document class.
My opinion is that every frontmatter is a one-off affair, with lots of
different things that should be individually laid out, and as such, the
frontmatter should be constructed by hand coded ERT and custom environments.
My opinion is that your decision as to which class should be determined based
on the benefits to you in the mainmatter and maybe backmatter. Those places
(especially the mainmatter) are where you need styles based consistency, and
therefore it's those places that the right document class (and the right
packages) can do you the most good.
SteveT
Steve Litt
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