Page Layout ⇒ »jarticle« vs. »article«

[kevincobain2000]

Hi, I have given up to get jarticle working with lyx. I already have platex installed but still lyx 2.0.2 is not able to get jarticle (article japanese from document class) is not able to load and keep telling me \NeedTexFormat platex2e.

But my question is not the above thats why I put in page layout.

If I use article class instead of jarticle. Is the page layout, fonts, margins etc are same in both of them ? I would be writing the document in English anyways.

To rephrase the question,
2 documents, both written in same English text one using article class and second using jarticle class, would look exactly the same ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

Haruhiko Okumura said in a TUG interview 2007:

My class files, jsarticle.cls (and friends), are equivalent to pTeX's jarticle.cls, which is in turn equivalent to article.cls, except for two exceptions: (1) jsarticle.cls discards pTeX's original font metrics and loads the improved TFM files; (2) it sets penalties and other parameters to better reflect traditional Japanese typesetting rules.

Stefan

[kevincobain2000]

Thanks a lot Stefan for confirmation . I appreciate it.