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> 
> 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 I am fairly sure that \documentstyle is *way* *way* out of date; it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)
> 
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