All files are prepaired for the book production, the reason why they have lines like \documentclass[]{exaarticle} \setlength\textwidth{352.81416pt} \setlength\parindent{0pt} [...] %\StartShownPreambleCommands [...] %\StopShownPreambleCommands [..] you can simply replace the documentclass to article and delete the \setlength lines. However, all used example document classes are also present in this directory, you can use that ones if you like. run all *.ltx2, *.ltx, and *.ltxb with pdflatex. run all *.ltxbps and *.ltxpd with latex->dvips->ps2pdf Berlin 2012-08-18