A LaTeX template for DHSN Dresden

This repository contains a LaTeX template, which tries to follow the DHSN Dresden Styleguide as close as possible. The template might do things wrong and there is no warranty. It is your own responsibility to check for correctness.

Enduser Documentation

Go here please. 🚀 This README provides a development overview.

Files

The source files are commented rather extensively.

• baarticle.cls describes the document class and provides everything related to styling and spacing. Also defines certain environments.
• baarticle.bbx describes the formatting of bibliography entries and formatting.
• baarticle.cbx provides the citation style and commands.
• baarticle.dbx adjusts the biblatex data model.
• ngerman-ba.lbx provides the required localization.

Modifications to the template can be tested by compiling the minimal.tex and simple.tex files. Some sort of unit tests are provided by the test.tex file, but LaTeX support for unit testing is very limited.

The documentation is build from the docs folder and served via GitHub Pages.

Formatting

To ensure consistent formatting use the .editorconfig and .prettierrc files.

The following file types are formatted using Prettier:

• Markdown
• YAML
• Ruby
• HTML

All LaTeX related files are formatted using the latexindent module.

The following vs code extensions are helpful to format the files:

• EditorConfig
• Prettier

Originally crafted by Nuckal777.