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I typed paper instead of report by accident as the argument of \documentclass... and discovered that paper is very, very nice. However, it doesn't seems to support chapters.

How can I add chapter support to it or adapt report/books to looks like documents using the paper class?

Further, where I can find more information about paper? Googling "paper latex" didn't return anything relevant or useful...

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    Google “paper.cls” instead. – Thérèse Feb 26 '14 at 19:11
  • It's another class derived from ar­ti­cle class from terminal type texdoc paper gives only a german documentation. Have a look at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/paper – texenthusiast Feb 26 '14 at 19:14
  • @texenthusiast Do you know if there is any similar package with documentation available in English? i.e. a generic journal-article class. – cfr Feb 26 '14 at 20:08
  • @cfr No idea as such(as some journals might have their own templates/classes), but one may use article or more flexible scrartcl as they are widely popular. report for thesis writing – texenthusiast Feb 26 '14 at 20:17
  • @texenthusiast Fair enough. I use article at the moment but it would be nice to have standard commands for keywords, institution etc. out of the box. (I know I can create these. I already have for some other things.) For my thesis, I used a variant of amsbook which is slightly bizarre but worked. (Only bizarre because my thesis contained essentially no mathematics whatsoever.) Journals I submit to rarely provide classes/templates. Usually, they insist on Word for final submission but will take PDF initially. Hence a generic option would be ideal. – cfr Feb 26 '14 at 20:27
  • @cfr Yes journals are like that I understand, we have to live with that :). If I were you I would have used scrartcl or some template links Even memoir is nice alternative. anyway Good luck :) – texenthusiast Feb 26 '14 at 20:51
  • Could you say what it is you like about the paper class? That might help people suggest things you could use to adapt another class. Classes which support layouts for books which involve chapters, front matter, back matter and so on tend to involve quite a lot absent from classes designed for articles. So while you could easily add a \chapter command, for instance, this might not give you the sorts of results you are hoping for. – cfr Feb 26 '14 at 22:18

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As texenthusiast said, texdoc is your friend, but the little documentation is in german only (although with a english abstract). Nonetheless, the functions of the few new commands that you will see as \smalltableofcontents are rather obvious, but in any case you can just ignore these commands and use only the standard article commands. May be is helping also the examples that you can see just here.

About the book type alternatives, probably the most similar european look without any tuning is obtained with the scrbook class. Moreover is highly customizable. In this case with texdoc scrbookyou will obtain a well documented english manual ... of 421 pages!

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