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1.1 Purpose of Making ¶

There are three (3) reasons for the creation of this documentclass.

The first purpose is to standardise and streamline document creation which abides to the standards set by the MCI with regards to:

• Font-size, figure captions, bibliography, …
• Margin spacing, header and footer spacing, text information, …
• Spacing between lines, linebreak settings, spacing of headers, …
• Language determined grammatical rules (when to hypenate and caption text and proper quoatation marks)
• Simple error-correction codes to minimise wrong entering of values,

and so on so forth.

Its second purpose is to create a repository to house a standardised class to minimise any friction between the work of the student and the representation of the content.

Care was given to how the class behaves to minimise its interaction with other packages the end-user might need for their work.

The document standard was also designed with specific customisation in hand by either configuring its settings through the options presented in the \documentclass and using the macro \SetMCI{} which its features are documented here.

The tertiary purpose is perhaps more in line of streamlining. While LaTeX is an excellent typesetting language with is very powerful² capabilities, it is nevertheless a language with its quirks and customs that may not prove to be very useful outside of its own domain and therefore the user should not be worried of these quirks.

This duty is mostly taken care of the class designer.

Function: \SetMCI key=val ¶

Allows global configuration of the document. Takes various key=val options based on the documentclass state and other sub configurations.