arsclassica integrated into classicthesis

[André Miede]

Evaluate the chance to put the "ArsClassica" code straight inside the "ClassicThesis" code: this way, if someone wants to use ArsClassica, he can just write

\uespackage[...,arsclassica]{classicthesis}

https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/arsclassica?lang=de

(Suggestion made by the author of arsclassica, Lorenzo Pantieri)

[Ivo Pletikosić]

If I may suggest: how about we keep all the redefinitions in a separate arsclassica.sty that can be called from classicthesis.sty when needed; LaTeX is all about macro redefinitions anyway, and the code will look better if there are only few if-then-elses. classicthesis.sty can introduce a few hooks to make some redefinitions easier. One example:

\newcommand{\ct@scfont}{\color{red}\sffamily\scshape}

\DeclareRobustCommand{\spacedallcaps}[1]{\textls[160]{\ct@scfont\MakeTextUppercase{#1}}}%pdftex, luatex
\DeclareRobustCommand{\spacedallcaps}[1]{{\addfontfeature{LetterSpace=18.0}\ct@scfont\MakeTextUppercase{#1}}}%xetex

[André Miede]

Thanks for your input, Ivo. I've made some progress and let's see how things will go.

[Ivo Pletikosić]

Looks good! I added a few comments to your last commit here on bitbucket, please check. Can we get some indentation in arsclassica.ct to make it more readable?

[André Miede]

Thanks for all your input. I fixed and beautified a couple of things with arsclassica (hopefully, I did not break any of our own old things).

For now, everyhing seems to be fine and working. From a typographic point of view, the arsclassica part might need some serious revision, e.g., the consistent use of bold faces etc. But I am not too sure about this.

[André Miede]

Moderately stable and "nice" version is working and will be in the next release.