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Why should the minimal class be avoided?

In a comment to my answer to Drawing a rectangle along the border of a circle, Peter Grill said that he read that the minimal class should not be used for a Minimal Working Example. I wonder why, and ...
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How was this TeX showcase ConTeXt book made?

I found a very interesting book design in the TeX showcase (pp.pdf/pp.tex): http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/ Does the source really have enough information inside to produce such nice formating? Can ...
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How to use showexpl with an external class?

Showexpl package defines LTXexample environment which allows to define a latex code and shows its result side by side. The problem is that it uses the same documentclass where the latex code is ...