TeXShop ⇒ Problem with custom Style File

[PJensen]

Hi,

I am working in TeXShop on a mac and I want to change style of my document. I want to use a stylefile with the extension *.sty. But when I use it I get an error:

! LaTex Error: File 'bioinformatics.sty.cls' not found.[...] default extension: cls

Can I somehow change the default extension, so it looks after *.sty instead of *.cls? Or is it something else that is the problem?

Hope someone can help me.

All the best,
Palle

[kaiserkarl13]

You should use something like

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{bioinformatics}

This tells LaTeX to use the article document class (article.cls), plus the style changes in bioinformatics.sty. Classes and packages are different things and should not be confused---one (the class) controls the entire document layout, while the other adds new commands that should work with most (all?) document classes.

[PJensen]

Thank you very much for the reply! It seems to work for me

I don't know why I thought it should be like

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,danish,twoside,openright]{bioinformatics}{article}

But I think it works now.

Thanks