langsci/latex-skeletons

Templates for monographs, papers, and edited volumes

latex-skeletons

These templates are the ready-to-use LaTeX sources to compile Language Science Press publications. They can be obtained as packed .zip files from our website or the gh-pages branch.

The templates in this GitHub repository work with TeX Live 2020 and up to date CTAN sources.

Which files should I use?

This depends on your role:

• If you are the author for a monograph, you need the monograph skeleton in the /skeleton/ folder.
• If you are an editor for a collection of papers, you need the monograph for edited volumes from /editedskeleton/ folder. Feel free to supply your contributing authors with a copy of the /paper/ folder, which they can use to write their paper.
• If you are a contributing author in a collection of papers, you'll need the /paper/ folder structure.

How do I compile the sources?

There are some recipes in the Makefile. For most purposes, it suffices to compile main.tex with XeLaTeX, then compiling the bibliography with biber (run on file main), and compiling main.tex with XeLaTeX again so that the bibliography and ToC appear.

Where do I enter my meta data?

Here is an overview. These settings are for skeleton and editedskeleton only. The meta data for paper are inserted directly in main.tex.

File	Setting	Meaning
main.tex	\addbibresource{<file.bib>}	The location of your bibliographical database. The recommended file name is localbibliography.bib.
main.tex	option multiauthors	Enable this option if there is more than one editor/author.
main.tex	option booklanguage=<language>	Set this option if you are writing in another language than English. Currently supported are: chinese, french, german, portuguese. Please get in touch if you need another.
localmetadata.tex	\title	The book's title of either monograph or collected volume.
localmetadata.tex	\subtitle	The book's subtitle of either monograph or collected volume.
localmetadata.tex	\author	The name of all contributing author(s) or editor(s). Individuals are separated by and. Please see this Wiki page for details.
localmetadata.tex	\BackBody	The blurb displayed on the back cover.
localmetadata.tex	\Series	The shorthand of the series you are publishing your book in.
localseealso.tex		Recipes for links in the Indexes.

Where can I get technical support?

The Support Contact details are listed on our website.

latex-skeletons's Issues

missing file?

I'm having trouble using the langscibook class. When I compile (even just the example in paper/, using make, after linking in the other relevant files), I get the following message:

! LaTeX Error: File `langsci-series.def' not found.

Is this file missing, or do I need it from somewhere else?

Title of Ackn. section, BrE/AmE difference

The title of the section Acknowledgements can have two different spellings:

• Acknowledgements (British, South African, NZ English)
• Acknowledgments (US English)

The British variant is pre-defined in our template and can cause inconsistencies when the chapter is written in American English. The problem does not arise for Canadian and Australian English because they accept both spellings.

At present, the only option to customise the heading is by hand, since we don't have a language setting on a per-chapter basis.

Missing file `langsci_spinelogo_nocolor`

There seems to be a file named langsci_spinelogo_nocolor missing from this repository.

Steps to reproduce:

git clone https://github.com/langsci/latex-skeletons.git
cd latex-skeletons/editedskeleton
make pdf

Error thrown:
! LaTeX Error: File `langsci_spinelogo_nocolor' not found.

I'm on Fedora 33 using texlive and the package texlive-langsci-9:svn54393-33.fc33.noarch -- in case the file should be provided there but isn't.

Author index : creating links ('see...'), like for subjects and languages

As of Feb. 2017, the LangSci Press template allows for pointers inside the index, for languages and subjects.

It could be good to have it for authors too. Especially, women authors who change their names after they get married and thus publish under 2 different names. References need to be cited under the name used in the publication. So a cross-link would be good.

Thorsen, Nina, 254, 288, see also Grønnum, Nina

Grønnum, Nina, 266, see also Thorsen, Nina

It would only require 1 additional line of code, right? In addition to
\newcommand{\ilsa}[2]{\il{#1@\igobble | langsciseealso{#2}}}
\newcommand{\issa}[2]{\is{#1@\igobble | langsciseealso{#2}}}

providing
\newcommand{\iasa}[2]{\ia{#1@\igobble | langsciseealso{#2}}}

(caveat: I am not an advanced LaTeX user)

rename repository to langscibook-skeletons

Since the latex repository has been renamed to langscibook, this looks like a logical step to me.