Introducing SEP2e class

L^ATEX2_e allows users to add their own classes to the standard classes (article, letter, book, report, etc.), supplied in the base L^ATEX2_e distribution. We define the basic macro for SEP documents as a class (.cls file) rather than a package (.sty file) to avoid conflicts with other packages and because it has a predefined notion of the base class (explained below.)

In the design of the sep2e class, we attempted to

• preserve maximum back-compatibility with the older macros (sepreport.sty)
• keep it as small and simple as possible,
• use object-oriented tricks whenever possible,
• use standard L^ATEX2_e packages whenever appropriate.

The sep2e.cls file is accompanied by a perl script sep2e.pl, which assists latex2html in translating class commands to their HTML equivalents.

The user invokes sep2e.cls with the command \documentclass[options]{sep2e} The class options are:

alone

This option is the default. It means process the file as a stand-alone article .

report

This option is used to typeset SEP's bi-annual reports.

book

This option is used to typeset books in the style of Jon Claerbout's trilogy.

minimal

This option helps the user to restrain himself from superfluous SEP's extensions to L^ATEX (otherwise, fully supported for backward compatibility.) It is required by latex2html.

Option alone loads the L^ATEX article class into sep2e. It means that all commands and definitions of the official article class are available to the document, processed with the alone option unless they were redefined in the sep2e class. Likewise, the other two option load the book class into sep2e. All other options of \documentclass are passed directly to the corresponding base class (article or book.) For example, to process a book with 12-point fonts, you can use \documentclass[book,12pt]{sep2e}.