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[J. Wayde Allen]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, David wrote:

> I am fairly sure that \documentstyle is *way* *way* out of date; it
> pre-dates LaTeX2e.  The correct command, especially for new users, is
> \documentclass; I changed to this years ago.  I think (not sure) that
> things like \usepackage{rotating} do not even work under the old
> system.

The book   

   Lamport, Leslie, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Users
   Guide and Reference Manual 2nd Ed., Addison Wesley, 1994, 
   ISBN 0-201-52983-1, pg 228

says

   "Documents prepared for LaTeX2e begin with a \documentclass command
    (Section 2.2.2).  LaTeX2e realizes it is processing a LaTeX 2.09 input
    file and enters compatibility mode when it encounters a LaTeX 2.09
    \documentstyle command.  Most LaTeX 2.09 input files will work with
    LaTeX2e.  However, an error may occure if LaTeX2e reads and auxiliary
    file produced by LaTeX 2.09, so it's a good idea to delate such files
    before running LaTeX2e. 

    The document styles of LaTeX 2.09 have become document
    classes.  SliTeX has been eliminated; slides are produced using the 
    slides document class.  Standard document-style options that
    controlled formatting, such as twoside, have become document-class
    options, and are specified as optional arguments to the \documentclass
    command.  Other document-sytle options have become pacakges, loaded
    with the \usepackage commadn (Section 2.2.2).  Most nonstandard
    document-style options will work as LaTeX2e packages."


- Wayde
  (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)