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I've stumpled over this answer to another problem, and it states:

The article class recognises the titlepage option, which forces the \maketitle command to create a separate page.

To me the wording of this sentence implies that there possibly may be document classes which do not recognise the titlepage option. Hence my question is:

Which core document classes support the titlepage option and which do not? (And for those classes that do not support this option: Which of them put the title on a separate page by default?)

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    Hint: Take any document class you care about -- there are hundreds, if not thousands, out there, and I don't have the slightest idea which ones you may care about -- and include titlepage among the options set via the \documentclass[...]{<name of class>} instruction. If LaTeX issues a warning that the option titlepage wasn't used, bingo!, you know it's not set up to use this option. Of course, (almost) anyone can set up a document class and set up an option called titlepage. The crux is, what does the document class do if this option is set? – Mico Nov 29 '16 at 20:42
  • The question may have been a bit unclear in that regard. I am only interested in the core classes that every LaTeX distribution should provide by default. – Striezel Nov 29 '16 at 23:30
  • "the core classes every LaTeX distribution should provide by default" still leaves 100 or more possibilities. (Most LaTeX distributions are quite large...) Did you see the posting What are the available “documentclass” types and their uses? – Mico Nov 30 '16 at 21:57

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Hard to answer. Anyone can write a latex class and they may or may not have a titlepage option.

Of the classes in the core distribution,

article, report, proc, slides and book have a titlepage option,

letter and minimal do not have titlepage option or titlepage environment or \maketitle

ltnews is based on article but removes the titlepage option via

\DeclareOption{titlepage}{\OptionNotUsed}

ltxdoc class is based on article and inherits its options.

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