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What would you say: book, memoir, classicthesis...? I want to read as much as I can on the class documentation before I start writing, so I avoid problems in the future, when I should be focussing on content, not form. Also, since I plan to read the documentations in advance, for those who've been through this before, please warn me about further important packages I should be aware of, so I can read their documentation in advance too.

(I'm sorry for the subjective, discussional character of this question.)

Rodrigo Vianna de Almeida
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    Possible duplicate of What are the available "documentclass" types and their uses? – CampanIgnis Sep 02 '19 at 06:09
  • Welcome to TeX.SE. – CampanIgnis Sep 02 '19 at 06:10
  • See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/47964/ and https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16835/. – CampanIgnis Sep 02 '19 at 06:32
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    It is probably a very opinion based question. But, that said. If the thesis is marked up properly, then the class used should not matter as it should all be down to configurations made in the preamble. – daleif Sep 02 '19 at 06:56
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    Obviously the memoir class. The documentation even provides an example for a thesis. (Please don't say that I am biased as being the original developer of memoir) ;-) – Peter Wilson Sep 02 '19 at 17:37
  • I had an edit to my comment and started within the 5 minute limit but finished outside it, so the edit was ignored. A bad decision on SE's part. I was trying to say that the main difficulty with theses is that the style referees have little idea about typography. They can usually be accomodated via packages changing the overall layout and line spacing. More difficult can be the title page. The memoir manual (> texdoc memoir) does show code for an example thesis. – Peter Wilson Sep 02 '19 at 17:55
  • Thank you, @PeterWilson. I've taken a look at many packages' documentations and found that there is no gain to try to learn a class from studying a serious documentation before writing if not using the memoir class. And thanks for finding a way to answer this question, despite it being blocked for being opinion-based. – Rodrigo Vianna de Almeida Sep 03 '19 at 06:46

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