varianTeX 3.0.1 (Zenodo update)

About this repository

This repository contains the latest official GitHub hosted versions of the LaTeX template for compiling issues of Variants, the journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. For more information on how to use this template, please visit our wiki.

Alongside this template, we also offer a specific, smaller template that authors can use to prepare their contributions for inclusion in the journal's issues. That template, called 'varianTeX for Authors' is also available as a GitHub repository, and as an Overleaf Template.

About this release

Apart from a small correction in our README.MD, this release is identical to v3.0.0. The main reason for publishing this release is because the link between this repository and the Zenodo archive was broken after the repository was moved from WoutDLN's repositories to the ESTS-Variants organisation. As a result, v3.0.0 (which was released before this link was fixed) was never archived in Zenodo. This release aims to remedy that issue.

Version 3.0.0 was released after the publication of Variants 17-18, and includes major changes that were made to the template in preparation of that issue. The most significant changes include:

• Instead of including several modular 'preamble' files in the main.tex, the packages, environments, and settings used for styling the document are now bundled as a package with a .sty extension, and included in the main.tex with the /usepackage{variants} command.
• Our method for including bibliographies no longer uses natbib and a custom .bst file, because maintaining the .bst file was too much work and kept introducing new errors. Instead, we moved from BibTeX to BibLaTeX. This is easier to maintain, and also includes more detailed ways of describing sources. IMPORTANT! BibLaTeX has specific compiler requirements, so you will probably need to change compilers to get this to work. We use LuaLaTeX to compile our projects.
• The template now also includes packages and a .tex file for designing a cover for your issue.

Full changelog:

• For the changes from v2.0.0 to v3.0.0, see: v2.0.0...v3.0.0
• For the small change from v3.0.0 to v3.0.1, see: 91c1b51

varianTeX 3.0 (post Variants 17-18)

About this repository

This repository contains the latest official GitHub hosted versions of the LaTeX template for compiling issues of Variants, the journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. For more information on how to use this template, please visit our wiki.

Alongside this template, we also offer a specific, smaller template that authors can use to prepare their contributions for inclusion in the journal's issues. That template, called 'varianTeX for Authors' is also available as a GitHub repository, and as an Overleaf Template.

About this release

Version 3.0.0 was released after the publication of Variants 17-18, and includes major changes that were made to the template in preparation of that issue. The most significant changes include:

• Instead of including several modular 'preamble' files in the main.tex, the packages, environments, and settings used for styling the document are now bundled as a package with a .sty extension, and included in the main.tex with the /usepackage{variants} command.
• Our method for including bibliographies no longer uses natbib and a custom .bst file, because maintaining the .bst file was too much work and kept introducing new errors. Instead, we moved from BibTeX to BibLaTeX. This is easier to maintain, and also includes more detailed ways of describing sources. IMPORTANT! BibLaTeX has specific compiler requirements, so you will probably need to change compilers to get this to work. We use LuaLaTeX to compile our projects.
• The template now also includes packages and a .tex file for designing a cover for your issue.

Full changelog: v2.0.0...v3.0.0

varianTeX 2.0

varianTeX is a template designed for editors of journals in the Humanities who are looking for an easy way to structure a complex collection of multi-authored articles in LaTeX.

This release offers new version of the LaTeX template, that is no longer slowed down by the weight its own GitHub Actions Jekyll documentation website. Instead, the GitHub repository now has a wiki that helps propspective editors prepare their LaTeX projects using the template. In addition, more information about varianTeX and the trimmed down varianTeX for authors templates can be found on the dedicated externally hosted web page: variantex.woutdillen.be.

Other changes in comparison to the 1.0 release of this LaTeX template include:

• a name change from VariantX to varianTeX -- to make the link to LaTeX more obvious
• more packages included in the template -- to enable functionalities necessary for Variants 15
• a new and improved, self-made referencing style for bibliographies
• new and improved colophon text
• reorganisation of files and fixing of redundancies
• bug fixes

varianTeX

Rebranding the repository as varianTeX

VariantX 1.0

v1.0

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