On 2013-05-10 at 21:44:35 +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> \documentclass{minimal}
>
> Off-topic ... I recall Frank (or someone from LaTeX) saying that it's
> not a good practice to use \documentclass{minimal} in general for test
> documents, because minimal.cls intentionally does not define many
> standard things. So I just keep using {article}. (I don't recall the
> details, though, i.e., why {minimal} was created in the first place.)
I don't know either what minimal.cls was made for. However, if none
of the features provided by other document classes is actually used,
it doesn't make any difference. For a simple "Hello, World!" document
minimal.cls is fine.
Regards,
Reinhard
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