Document Classes ⇒ Class for typesetting Manuals or Guides

[Neo63]

Hi,

I'm looking for a document class to typeset owner's manuals and user guides. I need one for an ECE project I'm working on, so this is for hardware not software. I've looked at the refman class but it seemed rather complicated and I'm still relatively new to LaTeX. Thank you so much.

[coachbennett1981]

Have you looked at the book documentclass?

[Neo63]

Just took a look, didn't find any documentation which I suppose is because it's one of the default document classes preloaded. From what I read, it's fairly similar to the article class except for headings and title formatting which is not really what I was looking for.

Alternatively, I tried just using the article class which I'm more familiar with than the other ones, but I had a problem with the title page. I was unable to insert spaces between the header and the title with \vspace or \vfill. Here's the code

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\documentclass[12pt,twoside,letter]{article}
\documentclass[12pt,twoside,letter]{article}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage[scriptsize,bf]{caption}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\headsep = 0.25 in
\headheight = 0.25 in
\voffset = -0.5 in
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\fancyhead[CO,CE]{User Guide}
\titleformat*{\section}{\sc \large}
\titleformat{\subsection}[block]{}{\thesubsection}{.5em}{\sc}
\begin{document}
\title{title}
\author{author}
\date{date}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\end{document}

I was also unable to make the title in small caps with titlesec package, if anyone can help me that'd be great. Sorry, I'm still really new to LaTeX and did not really have much time to read over guides and such. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[bmandar]

Well for small caps you just need to type {\sc title}...