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Page 17 in the The LaTeX Companion suggests all options to \documentclass are passed to packages as class options. However, when I include margin=1in in the documentclass option in an attempt to pass it into the geometry package, it did not work. LaTeX warns the option is grabbed by any packages. I think the problem might be the word class options. Then is it true that not all options defined in a package are class options? In other words, is it true that in the context of a package, regular options are not necessary class options and one have to do extra work to make a regular option a class option?

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    It's not exactly an option of geometry, I think, as it uses a system key=value. – Bernard May 01 '17 at 15:41
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    The fact the geometry accepts key=value options indicates that it does not use the standard latex option handling code. – David Carlisle May 01 '17 at 16:03
  • But for instance, showframe option, that not take any values, works in as option in the document class. – Fran May 01 '17 at 16:05
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    Package options defined using \DeclareOption should pick up the document class option, but \DeclareOption* won't (and, as the others have pointed out, the key=value options won't either as they're not defined using \DeclareOption). – Nicola Talbot May 02 '17 at 07:49

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