Warning

The end-user documentation (doc/manual.pdf) is incomplete and to be considered a Work in Progress!

If you feel valiant, read the source code documentation, instead (doc/cocotex.pdf). We try to keep this one as up-to-date as possible.

In the doc folder, you also find a Dante2024.pdf, which is the slides to a talk the main developer gave at the 2024 Dante Frühjahrestagung in Weimar in April 2024 (German only).

Please note that the main development currently happens in the ally branch. If you need up-to-date source code (that might lack up-to-date documentation though), please look there.

CoCoTeX Kernel

This repository contains the source files (including code documentation) and the user manual for the CoCoTeX framework.

What is CoCoTeX?

CoCoTeX is a programming framework for (Lua)LaTeX While it is intended to be used with and has been developed parallel to le-tex's xerif, it can be used stand-alone as a LaTeX package.

CoCoTeX is developed to "simplify" common requirements by various publishers like complex headings, floats with more than one caption, foreign language support, titlepages, etc. It adopts some principles from object-oriented programming like inheritance, mixins, and overloading of functionalities.

Installation

Installation of Release Versions

Simply copy the cocotex.dtx and cocotex.ins from the releases/current folder to your local project directory and run

latex cocotex.ins

this will unpack the necessary files.

Co-Dependencies

You need the following additional items to run certain CoCoTeX modules:

• coco-scripts.sty requires xerif-fonts. Copy or sym-link the whole folder as fonts inside your project directory
• coco-accessibility.sty requires the lua files from the ltpdfa package (pre-alpha version inside the externals/ltpdfa/ folder). Copy or sym-link the contents of the folder to your project directory, which should now contain both a suppl and ltpdfa folder and a env.sh file. Source the env.sh to tell LuaLaTeX where the .lua files are located.
• Recommended: Copy or symlink the htmltabs.sty (working pre-alpha version inside the externals/htmltabs folder) to your project directory, if you want to use tables with a html-like syntax.

If you use all externals, your project directory should look something like this:

<your_project_dir>
  ├─ <your_main>.tex
  ├─ cocotex.cls
  ├─ coco-kernel.sty
  ├─ coco-common.sty
  ├─ ... (further CoCoTeX modules)
  ├─ env.sh
  ├─ htmltabs.sty
  ├─ fonts
      ├─ Noto
      └─ Junicode
  ├─ ltpdfa
      ├─ ltpdfa.sty
      ├─ ltpdfa.lua
      └─ ...
  └─ suppl
      ├─ cmyk.icc
      └─ ...

Installation from Sources

If you want to use the included build.sh bash script (recommended), you need Ruby, at least version 3.1!

Clone the git Repository:

git clone https://github.com/transpect/CoCoTeX.git

copy the source.sh.example as source.sh and adjust the environment variables to your liking. Then, run

./build.sh

This script creates a temporary folder temp, merges the .dtx files in the src directory into a single temp/cocotex.dtx, and runs the installation script. The resulting .sty, .cls, and lua files are stored inside the build folder.

Run

./build.sh doc

to create the User Manual and the source code documentation, or

./build.sh doc man
./build.sh doc source

to create either separately.

Usage

Once the cls, sty and lua files have been unpacked and stored in a location usable by LaTeX, the framework's modules can be used with

\usepackage{coco-<module>}

If you want to utilize all (non-experimental) modules, you can use the included document class:

\documentclass[pubtype=<publication_type>]{cocotex}

to set the underlying document class. Valid values <publication_type> for are:

• article for single articles (this uses LaTeX's standard article class).
• mono for books where all parts are written by the same author(s),
• collection, for books where parts are written by different authors, or
• journal, for a collection of articles.

The latter three types use LaTeX's standard book document class.

For further information, read the End-User manual or look into the manual's source files (inside the lib/manual/ folder) and its main style file (cocotex-doc.sty).

LICENSE

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