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