This repository contains the most recent development build of our LaTeX class. In normal circumstances, there is no need for book authors and editors to interact with this repository. If you'd like to start working on your monograph, edited volume, or paper in a collection, please have a look at our latex-skeletons repository, which contains ready-to-use templates.
| option | values (defaults in bold face) | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| babelshorthands | use shorthands defined for German | |
| biblatexbackend | biber | bibtex | the backend of BibLaTeX |
| booklanguage | english | chinese | french | german | portuguese | spanish | language the book is written in |
| classicfloatnumbers | true / false | Restore float and equation numbering to <chapter no>.<id> in edited volumes. If set to false (default) the label will just be <id>. Only applied in edited volumes. |
| collection | for making the book an edited volume | |
| collectiontoclong | more detailed table of content in edited volumes | |
| copyright | CC-BY | CC-BY-ND | CC-BY-SA | choice of copyright |
| decapbib | true / false | If you want to have a booklanguage other than English, but still have English language settings in your bibliography, e.g. if you have a lot of English sources and/or want to decapitalise the bibliography. (This assumes biblatex=true). |
| draftmode | switch to draft mode (adds: draft stamp, indication of overlong lines, date) | |
| minimal | A speed-optimised mode - it disables generation of the cover and does not load font files. | |
| multiauthors | (automatically determined) | manually change editor suffix to (eds.). Usually no user action required as the value is obtained automatically. |
| nobabel | do not load the babel package (load it manually instead and include custom languages) | |
| oldstylenumbers | Global option for old style ("lowercase", "medieval") numerals within the scope of serif \textsc and \scshape | |
| openreview | switch to open review mode | |
| output | book | inprep | paper | guidelines | cover | coverbodsc| coverbodhc | covercreatespace | different output formats |
| proofs | show line numbers in the margin of the output PDF | |
| showindex | show index commands on margin | |
| smallfont | use 10pt as fontsize | |
| spinewidth | the width of the spine, used for cover creation | |
| uniformtopskip | disable Donald Arseneau's procedure for automatic widow and orphan control. This procedure results in different \topskips on different pages. This is undesirable when you want each page to have exactly the same number of lines in the type area. |
| name | type | descrition | usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| issueandeditor | cmd | print issue title in bibliography | \PassOptionsToPackage{issueandeditor=true}{biblatex} |
| patch mkbibindexname | cmd | disable capitalisation of last names in the index | \patchcmd{\mkbibindexname}{\ifdefvoid{#3}{}{\MakeCapital{#3} }}{\ifdefvoid{#3}{}{#3 }}{}{\AtEndDocument{\typeout{mkbibindexname could not be patched.}}} |
| nycot | cmd | sort bibliography by cite order | \ExecuteBibliographyOptions{sorting=nycot} |