Document Structure¶

Minimal TeX Document¶

A minimal tex document that uses the transpect-tex Framework has the following structure:

\documentclass[book]{transpect}                              (1)
\usepackage[main=ngerman,bidi=basic,silent]{babel}           (2)
\babelprovide[import]{english}                               (3)
\babelprovide[import]{french}                                (4)
\usepackage[<opt>]{<verlagsstyle>}                           (5)
...                                                          (6)
\begin{document}                                             (7)
…                                                            (8)
\end{document}                                               (9)

1. Document class
   • Document class name is always transpect.
   • Optional argument can be used to pass LaTeX-options such as a4paper, openright, twoside, etc.
   • and the document type:
     • "book"
     • "collection" for books with contributions from various authors
     • "article" for journal articles
2. you can include the Babel package, in which the main language of the document is specified (main=<myBabelLanguage>)
3. with \babelprovide{} you can specify aditionally used languages
4. add an \babelprovide{<sprachname>} for each language
5. Include the customer-specific style with the respective options
6. the area between \documentclass[…]{…} and \begin{document} is the TeX preamble. Additional meta information (e.g. color definitions, parameters for the front cover, ...) may inserted here
7. \begin{document} marks the start of the document
8. Content
9. anything after \end{document} is ignored.

Compiling¶

The minimal order of the TeX files is shown below:

latex <main>.tex       ## first run: collect
latex <main>.tex       ## second run: read and apply aux, toc, lof, lot
latex <main>.tex       ## third run: update page numbers after including toc, lof, etc.
./index.sh <main>      ## script to generate the index 
latex <main>.tex       ## fourth run: Index-Ausgabe, ggf. Aktualisierung toc für Index-ÜS
latex <main>.tex       ## fifth run: update toc