Document Classes ⇒ Trade Paperback Document Class for Fiction Novel

[SaneAssasin]

Hello!

I want a document class the size of a trade paperback for a fiction novel with the following:

1) An epigraph before the table of contents
2) A table of contents with only the name of the chapter and page number
3) Each chapter starting with a large letter. Lettrine seems it would work well
4) A poem environment that starts a new page

Is there anything available already or do I have to resort to writing my own document class?

I have looked up several tutorials to do this and am rather intimidated by all the codes! Hopefully there's something that works out there!

Also, I changed the default output to Lettersize following the instructions on this page: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/sites/default/fil ... romPDF.pdf

Will this prevent me from being able to output a different PDF size?

[cgnieder]

Two classes come to mind: »scrbook« (a koma-script class) and »memoir«. Both should allow for customization to your needs.

You can of course adapt papersize with both of them (and in any case with geometry).

The table of contents can be customized with means of the classes itself but there are also packages to do that. Setting \setcounter{tocdepth}{0} should do what you want, basically.

Poems at the beginning of a chapter can be set both with KOMA-Script and »memoir«.

The manuals:

• KOMA-Script scrguien.pdf
• »memoir«: memman.pdf

Regards