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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog. From 2025-01-26 onwards, versioning is done using Calendar Versioning.

2025-10-25

Added

  • Added initial support for University of Hamburg

Changed

  • Single line spacing in text

2025-10-20

Changed

Removed

  • Removed support for Paderborn

2025-01-26

Added

  • Added initial Dockerfile to enable building using Docker.

  • Added package mindflow, which supports quickly noting down thoughts with a) a proper rendering of LaTeX and b) a proper differentiation from the main text

  • Added more LaTeX hints

Changed

  • Switch to pdflatex (to speed up compile time)

  • Now generated using the latex template generator.

  • Replaced \ifluatex statements by separate .tex documents. This makes each .tex document smaller and simpler to understand.

  • Updated to TeXLive 2021

Fixed

  • Fixed examples in latexhints

  • Fixed typo in latexmk action name

  • Fixed mention of license in README

Removed

3.0.0 – 2020-09-03

Fixed

  • Fixed loading of newtxmath.

  • Fixed loading of "TeX Gyre Termes" and "TeX Gyre Heros" on MiKTeX.

  • Fixed bold and italics

  • Fixed font in math environment \mathrm to use "TeX Gyre Termes"

  • Fixed renaming of \acronymname to "Abkürzungsverzeichnis" when using the german template

  • Fixed loading of "TeX Gyre Heros" variants on LuaLaTeX

  • Fixed the broken PlantUML setup link in the documentation

Changed

  • Simplified styleguide of config.tex

  • Removed package dtk-logos, because it causes issues with lualatex

  • Removed package amssymb to fix compilation error. #125

  • Change documentation to tell users to download master.zip instead of the latest release.

  • Switch from lualatex to pdflatex as default compiler.

Added

  • Added section "related work". #127

Removed

  • Removed option hyperref at xcolor package. It is not used and caused troubles at some setups.

3.0.0-beta.4 – 2019-02-10

Added

  • Added stfloats package to enable footnotes below floats.

  • Added ngerman as class option for German documents.

  • Added macros \eg and \ie.

  • Added macro \powerset to correctly typeset the powerset symbol.

  • Added example for forest package.

  • Enable deletion of *.bbl when calling latexmk -c

Changed

  • Change kind of loading of cleveref package.

  • Strings for cleveref in German are set explicitly.

Fixed

  • There were English words appearing in German documents. #100 #103

  • Links to abbreviations work again. #102

  • Fix spacing between numbers and text in the TOC. #78

  • latexhints-minted-german.tex compiles with pdflatex again

  • Fix "LaTeX Warning: Reference `tab:Results' on page 1 undefined on input line 422."

3.0.0-beta.3 – 2018-06-06

Fixed

  • German quotes are correct when using \qq{...}.

  • .editorconfig only for *.tex, *.bib, *.yaml to enable seamless editing of *.cpp, *.java, etc. Fixes #25.

Changed

  • Bibliography goes before appendix.

3.0.0-beta.2 – 2018-06-04

Added

  • LatexDemo to show the LaTeX source code for equations and enumerations and the result in a box next to it.

  • ADR-0004 explaining the usage of lualatex for ligature handling.

Changed

  • Moved documentation contents of README.md to docs/index.md.

  • Refined setup instructions.

  • Refined overleaf instructions.

  • Refined instructions not to use \\ to separate paragraphs in LaTeX (but to use a blank line).

  • Documentation improvements in config.tex.

3.0.0-beta.1 – 2018-03-12

Added

  • Magic comment % !TeX TXS-program:compile = txs:///lualatex/[--shell-escape] to main-minted-german.tex.

Changed

  • Default compiler is lualatex (instead of pdflatex): % !TeX program and .latexmkrc adapted accordingly.

  • Quotes are now made by \qq{word} instead of \enquote{word} to easy typing.

2.5.0 – 2018-03-07

Added

Changed

  • Monospaced font is now Inconsolata.

  • Reorderded latexhints-*.tex to keep topics (figures, tables, code) together.

  • Switch from glyphtounicode to cmap package.

Fixed

  • Fix encoding in PDF bookmarks (pdf.js).

  • Compilation with lualatex works again.

2.4.0 – 2018-02-28

Added

  • Added hint on \abs command to latexhints-*.tex.

  • Added \initialism and direct commands (e.g., BPEL) to have nice renderings of names of standards. Thereby added lccaps package. They are rendered differently in English and German documents.

Fixed

  • Babel shorthands work in English texts, too.

  • No more warning of deprecated firstinits (fixed by replacing it by giveninits).

  • In English hints: no more double section "Weitere Illustrationen".

Changed

  • maxcitenames of biblatex is now 2 to abbreviate also three authors when using \Citet{...}.

Removed

  • Removed outdated hint on \textsc in latexhints-*.tex.

2.3.0 – 2018-02-04

Changed

  • URLs are typeset in monospaced font again. With the change of the font to Times Roman, it looks good in the monospaced font again.

  • Replace 1997 footnote package by footnotehyper.

  • Switch from manual \clubpenalty and \widowpenalty commands to nowidow package.

  • More English translations in config.tex.

  • Ligatures are disabled for monospaced font. E.g., \texttt{--} stays -- and is not converted to an en dash.

Fixed

  • Listings rendered by minted are now also shown in the TOC

  • latexindent config: removeSentenceLineBreaks set to 0 to avoid collapsing of environments

2.2.0 – 2018-01-19

Added

  • Added package upquote to enable backticks in verbatim text.

Changed

  • Change package option final to draft=false to reduce output from KOMA-Script

  • Change font text to Times Roman for both English and German templates. Fixes #48.

2.1.1 – 2018-01-18

Added

  • Lines in listings (made by lstlistings) are numbered.

  • Initial latexindent config.

Fixed

  • Fixed numbering of minted listings.

2.1.0 – 2018-01-16

Added

  • Added main-minted-german.tex to show how minted can be used.

  • Added an explanation (docs/overleaf.md) with screenshots of how to start at overleaf.

Changed

  • Switched from subfig to subcaption package

  • Enabled line breaks in long urls (which are not separated by spaces or slashes) in the bibliography.

  • Option hyphens added to package url: URLs can now also be hyphenated at hyphens, even though that might be confusing: Is the "-" part of the address or just a hyphen?.

  • Switch from uni-stuttgart-cs-cover.sty to scientific-thesis-cover.

  • Rename latex-hints-de.tex to latexhints-german.tex to be consistent with the filename pattern for main-*.tex.

2.0.1 – 2017-12-19

Added

Changed

  • Microtype is now loaded with babel=true option. This should lead to even better micro-typographic results.

  • Refined styleguide in config.tex.

  • Refined README.md.

Fixed

  • Fix typo in "Bachelor" in main-paderborn-*.tex.

2.0.0 – 2017-12-18

Added

  • main-paderborn-english.tex and main-paderborn-german.tex- start documents for Paderborn University.

  • main-english.tex – start document for English documents.

Fixed

  • Remove outdated section "Using with your own git repository"

Changed

  • The main file for works is main-german.tex for German documents.

  • No text content in sub files. Most users do not need the split. Advanced users can split the content by themselves.

  • All configuration files put in the root folder.

  • Remove "CR classification" from uni-stuttgart-cs-cover.sty.

  • git tags now without v prefix.

  • Change license to CC0 to ensure wide use.

1.3.0 – 2017-12-11

Added

  • New course "Medieninformatik" (medinf)

Fixed

  • Translate float name of 'Algorithmus' environment in English thesis

  • Translate float name of 'algorithm' environment only in German thesis

Changed

  • The repository uses the branch master as default branch and not template anymore.

1.2.0 – 2017-07-28

Changed

  • Fixed non-inline todos

  • Use German name for 'list of todos' in German thesis

1.1.0 – 2017-07-22

Changed

  • English works also take the same heading style than German works (sans serif)

  • made font size default again (now 11pt instead of 12pt) to look better

  • margins are set in a way that the page content does not "jump" when reading on screen.

1.0.0 – 2017-06-16

Changed

  • Start versioning based on the current version at 1.0.0.

  • Add initial CONTRIBUTING.md.

  • number for a thesis is now completely optional.