ShadowTeXSR5

Installation

What you need:

• A XeTeX compiler. Most LaTeX environments like MikTeX or TeXLive will have it included.
• The ShadowTeXSR5.cls
• The core folder; it contains all the static material used in the document (backgrounds etc.)
• An image folder; you can create that yourself. It's where you store any pictures you want to include in the document. The provided folder contains some template images.
• The index_style.ist.
• A *.tex file

Initiation

To get your rulebook started, copy this code into your *.tex file; it'll contain all the commands needed to start.

\documentclass{ShadowTeXSR5}
%How you want to name your Book. The title will show up in the headers
%Or on the alternative cover page.
\title{My Rulebook}
%Main author
\author{Me}
%List of artists, if available. Can leave empty.
%\artists{Me, Myself \& I}
%Cover artist, if available. Can leave empty.
%\coverartist{Me, too}
%Text Writers, if available. Can leave empty.
%\writers{Not me}
%Filename of the image you wish to be on the cover. It'll also show as an overlay in the headers. 
%If no image is provided, the document will show an alternative (boring) cover page and not overlay anything on the headers.
\splashpicture{Splash.jpg}

\begin{document}
%You can use this to select your Language of choice. Currently only ngerman and english are supported.
\selectlanguage{english}
%This builds and prints the cover page, splash page and impressum.
\srmaketitle
%This builds the TOC.
\tableofcontents

%From here on, your content can start.



\end{document}  

Colors

Pre-Defined colors are:

• whitetext
• redtext
• yellowtext
• normalpage
• storyblack
• boxred
• headred

Available Commands

Setup

• \title{}: Title of your book.
• \author{}, \writers{}, \artists{}, \coverartist{}: Can be used to credit writers and artists who help with the book in the Impressum.
• \splashpicture{}: Filename of splash picture in ./images/ folder
• \srmaketitle: Creates the cover, impressum and splash picture. Also initializes title for header use. Cover colors can be added as optional argument. (e.g. \srmaketitle[red]) Options: black, blue, brown, green, grey, red, yellow. Default: black

Structure

• \chapter{}, \section{}, \subsection{}, \subsubsection{}: as per regular LaTeX
• \storychapter{Title}{Author}{LeftImage}{RightImage}: Creates a black themed chapter for stories.
• \storypar creates a new paragraph with a red asterisk inbetween. For use within the storychapter.

Boxes

All boxes are environments that are used with \begin{name} and \end{name}.

• columnbox: creates a red box in one column. The Layout changes depending on which column it's in and should dynamically do the right thing; should a box refuse to play nice, you can force it into a configuration using \begin{columnbox}[l] or \begin{columnbox}[r].
• twocolbox: like columnbox, only the box spreads over both columns. Optional arguments apply as well.
• blackbox: creates a single column dark-themed box. With white text. Takes a title as argument.
• twocolblackbox: like blackbox, but two columns.
• examplebox: Creates a white box used for example texts.
• twocolexamplebox: Like examplebox, but two columns.

Images

• twocolimage: Creates a two-column image with frame. File name provided through argument.
• columnimage: Creates a tall image taking up one column.

Tables

The environment \begin{srtable}{layout}{Header} & \end{srtable} creates a table to be used within a blackbox or twocolumnblackbox. Layout describes tabularx column-Layout. The body contains all lines of the table except for the header line, which is provided through the second argument.

Small Sections

These sections are environments as well.

• deckercomment: Takes one argument (\begin{deckercomment}{author}) and creates a block of text for the comments of deckers to your texts.
• spell: Takes two arguments (\begin{spell}{title}{subtitle}) and creates a block of text used for qualities or spells.

Other commands

• spellblock: This command takes 4 arguments and a 5th optional one. \spellblock[Damage]{Type}{Range}{Duration}{Drain}. This can be used in the spell environment to add the core spell features.
• cformblock: This command takes 3 arguments. \cformblock[Target]{Duration}{Fading}. Just like spellblock this can be used in the spell environment to add complex forms.

Indexing

To create an index entry for a term, write \index{Term} in the text where you want the entry to link to. For more details see here.