Lately, I've begun working on duplicating a 16th century French Bible with XeTeX:

https://github.com/raphink/geneve_1564

It features image lettrine and OTF features using XeTeX, specifically the advanced features from the open-source EB Garamond font, some of which were implemented specifically for this project (thanks to Georg Duffner's great reactivity).

The project is still a work in progress (the marginpars can be improved) and only features one page so far.

Edit:

After reworking a few details, I ordered a printed copy recently, using zazzle:

Edit on 2015/07/07:

Fixed some details in the first page, and added a second page, featuring the EB Garamond Initials font.

My lecture notes on Flight Dynamics, in Italian.

This is Lecture Note 1.

Bilingual dictionary typeset in LaTex and XeLaTex

I was asked to publish complete code of bilingual dictionary typesetting in LaTex. This regards typesetting of Icelandic-Czech Students' Dictionary.

The code:

The complete code can be found in two versions on GitHub repositories.

1. LaTex version


2. XeLaTex version

Examples:

Example picture of current LaTex version layout.

Second example picture : lines in both columns are correctly aligned while displaying two images

Preview:

1. the first results of example letters can be viewed here
   


2. current version example of letter A

I humbly admit that this is community collaborative work that helped us step by step to add useful functions to the code. Thank you !!!

We owe the final shape of typography to Paolo Brasolin, that has made diametrical changes, namely:

1. lines in two columns document are aligned


2. 
   microtype package in use


3. clarity of the code


4. alignment of figures


5. geometry of layout

Questions and answers that helped to complete the code:

See How to set a letter to the margin of the page and position it vertically according to alphabetical order? for some explanations about the thumb index.

See How to display unprinted text in headers? for explanations about unprinted headwords in header.

See also question Two different layouts using fancyhdr that exlains how to use different layouts using fancyhdr

See also Texindy sorting Icelandic that solves correct sorting of Icelandic index

I use LaTeX to typeset my role playing games (RPGs) projects for some years now. I thought I share them here, as they go beyond the usual scientific background. Most content was created in German, but thanks to the LaTeX sources, partial translations in English, Polish, Spanish and French have been done by others. (Xe)LaTeX is used to apply the same layouts to those languages.

At the core there is a CC BY-SA licensed 4 page booklet called NIP'AJIN containing game rules. There are separate homepages for the German, English, Polish, Spanish and French PDFs, (Xe)LaTeX sources for all of them are available in a single GitHub-Repository. NIP'AJIN makes heavy use of a custom truetype symbol font, for which sources can be found in a second GitHub-Repository. To keep the page count small, it does not make use of illustrations:

Based on that, I have created longer booklets that include those 4 pages and add more content as well as illustrations. Maybe notable are NIP'AJIN Shots Vol.I and Vol.II that keep the same layout. German PDFs are available, most of the content (excluding illustrations) is also in the GitHub repository mentioned above:

Using the same style files of those Shots, I have also created themed booklets. Notable are Kurai Jikan, a manga/anime themed booklet (currently available in English, German and Polish), and Einhundertelf Jahre (German only), a toys-themed booklet:

Due license issues with the illustrations, no sources are available for those two, but the PDFs are distributed for free as CC BY-NC-ND. They are done the same way as the starter kit / author's package, found in the GitHub-Repository in the starter folder: they take the red-white layout from above and override some layout instructions to replace colors, backgrounds and fonts. The starter kit demonstrates this by creating a blue layout.

Finally, I recently created a CC BY-SA leaflet in German, English and Polish to promote the game. Full sources for it are available in this third GitHub-Repository.

Still work-in-progress is ROBiN, a Robin Hood / medieval themed 80-page book (look at the eBook Version - German however).

edited on 2016/01/26 Since this answer is still quite popular, I updated it to reflect the current state of the various projects and updated previews and links.

If I can be allowed to plug my own project, my page for Bertrand Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy shows off 6 different PDFs for different page sizes, including eBook versions, produced with the same core source file. The source is available too. However, it was also one of my first LaTeX projects and I’m a bit embarassed by some of the messiness in the code.

A more recent, and cleaner project (source also available) is Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus also available in different versions from the same source.

My first attempt to make something ... beautiful?

Without trying to imitate any particular book or style, I tried to evoke the beauty of ancient publications (very far from the illuminated books of he Middle Ages with Gothic or Uncial fonts, which are difficult to read for modern people).

The idea was add only add some fourier-orns ornaments, color, lettrines and old style numbers (except in math mode) once so popular. The type font is Palatino, that looks old but not
strange for people (who mostly will be not aware that is not the usual Times Roman).
There are not ligatures nor random small missplacing of old printing presses, but protrusion and expansion of the microtype package help in recreate slight imperfections preventing printing characters always with exactly the same size. Paper is artificially aged with wallpaper package with a simple backgroud.

The two sample pages below (with nonsense dummy text, biologist please ignore the content) have been joined by the inner margins with Gimp, to simulate their appearance in a paper book.

Edit: I planned to post the code when it was more polished and it could be used as book template... But I never have time to do it, so as requested, here it is, as is. In graphicx package have been included the [demo] option and TileWallPaper has been commented to make it compilable without images.

documentclass[twoside,12pt,english]{book}

usepackage{babel}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{color}

definecolor{marron}{RGB}{60,30,10}

definecolor{darkblue}{RGB}{0,0,80}

definecolor{lightblue}{RGB}{80,80,80}

definecolor{darkgreen}{RGB}{0,80,0}

definecolor{darkgray}{RGB}{0,80,0}

definecolor{darkred}{RGB}{80,0,0}

definecolor{shadecolor}{rgb}{0.97,0.97,0.97}

usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

usepackage{wallpaper}

usepackage{wrapfig,booktabs}



usepackage{fancyhdr}

usepackage{lettrine}

input Acorn.fd

newcommand*initfamily{usefont{U}{Acorn}{xl}{n}}



usepackage{geometry}

geometry{

tmargin=5cm, 

bmargin=5cm, 

lmargin=5cm, 

rmargin=3cm,

headheight=1.5cm,

headsep=0.8cm,

footskip=0.5cm}





% usepackage[full]{textcomp}

renewcommand{familydefault}{pplj} 

usepackage[

final,

stretch=10,

protrusion=true,

tracking=true,

spacing=on,

kerning=on,

expansion=true]{microtype}



setlength{parskip}{1.3ex plus 0.2ex minus 0.2ex}





usepackage{fourier-orns}



newcommand{ornamento}{vspace{2em}noindent textcolor{darkgray}{hrulefill~ raisebox{-2.5pt}[10pt][10pt]{leafright decofourleft decothreeleft  aldineright decotwo floweroneleft decoone   floweroneright decotwo aldineleftdecothreeright decofourright leafleft} ~  hrulefill \ vspace{2em}}}

newcommand{ornpar}{noindent textcolor{darkgray}{ raisebox{-1.9pt}[10pt][10pt]{leafright} hrulefill raisebox{-1.9pt}[10pt][10pt]{leafright decofourleft decothreeleft  aldineright decotwo floweroneleft decoone}}}

newcommand{ornimpar}{textcolor{darkgray}{raisebox{-1.9pt}[10pt][10pt]{decoone floweroneright decotwo aldineleft decothreeright decofourright leafleft} hrulefill raisebox{-1.9pt}[10pt][10pt]{leafleft}}}



makeatletter

defheadrule{{color{darkgray}raisebox{-2.1pt}[10pt][10pt]{leafright} hrulefill raisebox{-2.1pt}[10pt][10pt]{~~~decofourleft decotwodecofourright~~~} hrulefill raisebox{-2.1pt}[10pt][10pt]{ leafleft}}}

makeatother



fancyhf{}



renewcommand{chaptermark}[1]{markboth{#1}{}}

renewcommand{sectionmark}[1]{markright{#1}}



newcommand{estcab}[1]{itshapetextcolor{marron}{nouppercase #1}}



fancyhead[LE]{estcab{Fran Oldstyle}}

fancyhead[RE]{estcab{History of taxonomy}}

% fancyhead[CE,CO]{estcab{decoone}}

fancyhead[LO]{estcab{rightmark}} % malo cuando no hay section ~~~ thesection

fancyhead[RO]{estcab{leftmark}}



% fancyhead[RO]{bfnouppercase{ leftmark}}

% fancyfoot[LE]{bf thepage ~~ leafNE}

% fancyfoot[RO]{ leafNE  ~~ bf thepage}



fancyfoot[LO]{

ornimpar \ large hfill sffamilybf textcolor{darkgray}{leafNE ~~~ thepage}

}

fancyfoot[RE]{ornpar   \ large  sffamilybf textcolor{darkgray}{thepage ~~~ reflectbox{leafNE}}  hfill}



newenvironment{Section}[1]

{section{vspace{0ex}#1}}

{vspace{12pt}centering ------- decofourleftdecofourright ------- par}







usepackage{lipsum}

setlength{parindent}{1em} % Sangría española

pagestyle{fancy}



renewcommand{footnoterule}{vspace{-0.5em}noindenttextcolor{marron}{decosix raisebox{2.9pt}{line(1,0){100}} lefthand} vspace{.5em} }

usepackage[hang,splitrule]{footmisc}

addtolength{footskip}{0.5cm}

setlength{footnotemargin}{0.3cm}

setlength{footnotesep}{0.4cm} 



usepackage{chngcntr}

counterwithout{figure}{chapter}

counterwithout{table}{chapter}





begin{document}

% TileWallPaper{300pt}{300pt}{Descargas/fondopapelviejo.jpg}



chapter{Six kingdoms of life?}

newpage



section{Plantae}

lettrine[lines=3]{initfamilytextcolor{darkgreen}{T}}{he classic} kingdom emph{Plantae} (Haeckel, 1866

include all the multicellular green plants (emph{Viridiplantae} in Latin) as flowering  

plants, conifers, ferns, mosses and green algae. The number of species 

are estimatedfootnote{Largely underestimated according to many naturalist.} around 300,000 to 315,000. 

Usually red or brown seaweeds like kelp, fungi and bacteria have

excluded from this group.

This kingdom really exists since Carolus Linnae us (1707--1778) who 

divided the natural world into animals, plants and minerals. The kingdom emph{Animalia}  and emph{Plantae} remained 

in use by modern evolutionary biologists until some years.  



begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.26textwidth}

centering

includegraphics[scale=.26]{Descargas/mobot31753002356449_0113.jpg}

caption{footnotesize emph{Vallaris pergularia} from emph{Icones plantarum}, vol. II., (Hooker, 1837).}

label{fig1}

end{wrapfigure}

But now, both kingkoms are considered only two brachs of the unicelular kingdom emph{Protist} 

or emph{Protozoa}footnote{Although by tradition,  inconsistently the status of kingdom 

is maintained emph{Animalia}  and emph{Plantae}.}.  

lipsum[2]



lipsum[3]



ornamento



section{Fungi}



lettrine[lines=3]{initfamilytextcolor{darkgreen}{L}}{arlegy}, organism like emph{Candida albicans} has

 been considered different of emph{Protozoa} and related with green plants. However, today there 

 are evidences that animals and true fungi are indeed closer to each other than to any other group 

 in the eukaryote tree, far from the alveolates and other eukaryotic lineages.  



begin{wraptable}{r}{7 cm}

vspace{-.5cm}

centering

footnotesize

caption{label{wraptab}Estimated fungal species.}

begin{tabular}{lr}\toprule  

Authors & Species \midrule

Bisby and Ainsworth (1943) & $10^5$ \  

Martin (1951) &  $2.5times10^5$  \

Hawksworth (1991) & $1.5times10^6$ \ 

O’Brien emph{et al.} (2005) & $>3.5times10^6$ \  bottomrule

end{tabular}

end{wraptable} 





lipsum[4-6]



end{document}

I may be a little biased, but I'm quite happy with the way my thesis Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics turned out.

EDIT: I have now packaged up the source with a brief description of some of the tricks I used (tweaking your latex is a great way to procrastinate when you should be writing a thesis!)

If you find the sources useful, or further if you use my format as the basis of your own thesis, I would love to hear from you!

Here is a page from a simultaneous Romanian/English liturgy used in the Romanian Orthodox church that I typeset. I don't know if it qualifies for beautiful, but I'll let you decide. I used an archaich Romanian font for the headings, parcolumns for the side-by-side text, and LilyPond for the scores.

edit: There's now http://www.liturghie.net/ where the full PDFs are available (also in other languages besides English). Source code will eventually make its way on to GitHub as I clean it up. The whole thing is obviously work in progress.

The coloredlettrine package aims to provide beautiful colored drop caps to LaTeX, using the EB Garamond font:

A recent edition to the pstricks family is a set of "Vectorian ornaments" used for decorating text. It At the moment (don't know whether it might be expanded) it includes 196 ornaments, listed by number:

The documentation showcases some of the styles around text.

108:

158:

If you have time to spare, you can also have a look at my thesis Stochastic Multiplayer Games: Theory and Algorithms. The font is Fedra Serif B, combined with FdSymbol.

Edit: My LaTeX class file is available at https://gist.github.com/3428745.

One of the most interesting books typeset with TeX that I know, is "Trees, Maps, and Theorems" by Jean-Luc Doumont. It offers beautiful typography down to details such that each paragraph is typeset as a perfect rectangle (which means a lot of textual rewriting, so whether this is a good idea I leave open). But it makes a wonderful coffee-table book, with a lot of very useful advice inside.

Link to some sample pages as pdf

Here are some pages of my end-of-post-obligatory-school work (Travail de Maturité in French). The whole source code can be found in my Git repository under examples/TM. Some of this document typo are given as separated files in the typographyArchive folder. The document is in French, it's compiled using XeLaTeX. The main font is Lato (it's publish under the SIL open font licence).

The goal was to have a really "modern" design. It is inspired from the flat design that is used for websites.

It took me a lot of time and I hope the result was worth it. I spend some time on the table of content and the chapters headings. Besides, as I wanted something elegant, modern but still uncluttered, special efforts were made on the text look, and the document spacing. The tables are also customized to meet the flat style.

Personally, I love the ability to really use typography as part of storytelling, like as shown in the raisebox example in A (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e:

raisebox{0pt}[0pt][0pt]{Large%

textbf{Aaaaraisebox{-0.3ex}{aa}%

raisebox{-0.7ex}{a}%

raisebox{-1.2ex}{r}%

raisebox{-2.2ex}{g}%

raisebox{-4.5ex}{h}}}

she shouted, but not even the next

one in line noticed that something

terrible had happened to her.

Or to show that pi is rather long... (based on diminuendo from from the Tex showcase):

Isn't that art?

For a project I had to typeset a text conversation between two people. I ended up writing a class that recreates the look and feel of the Kik messenger app.

Source of the class file (kik-android.cls):

% kik-android.cls

%   by Brian Jacobs (fixes by Maximilian Noethe).

%   April 10, 2018

%

% This document class emulates the user interface of the Kik messaging

% application running on an android Moto X.



ProvidesClass{kik-android}



% Start with article. Eventually this should be removed,

% because I'm not actually using it for much of anything

LoadClass{article}



% Load all necessary packages

usepackage{varwidth}

usepackage{fontspec}

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{calc}





% Set up the page so that it matches phone size.

usepackage[top=.55in,         bottom=.55in,

            right=.015in,      left=.015in,

            paperwidth=2.308in,paperheight=4.103in]{geometry}



% Style the page

pagestyle{empty}

setmainfont{DroidSans}

setlength{parindent}{0pt}



% Color Definitions

usepackage{xcolor}

definecolor{backgroundgray}{RGB}{238,238,238}

definecolor{linegray}{RGB}{212,212,212}

definecolor{circgray}{RGB}{199,199,199}

definecolor{circdarkgray}{RGB}{117,117,117}

definecolor{arrowgray}{RGB}{107,107,107}

definecolor{msggreen}{RGB}{185,224,97}

definecolor{androidgray}{RGB}{191,191,191}

definecolor{repwiregreen}{RGB}{71,146,53}

definecolor{kikblue}{RGB}{103,142,233}

definecolor{kiktimepalegray}{RGB}{158,169,184}

definecolor{kiktimedarkgray}{RGB}{122,133,151}



% Customization Flags

def@hours{12}

def@minutes{11}

def@partnerName{Sample Name}



% Macros to draw the background

def@statusbar#1{

  defc{androidgray}

  fill[c]

    let p1 = (current page.north east) in

      (x1 - .42in - #1in, y1 - 0.0415in - #1in) rectangle (x1 - .43in -#1in, y1 - 0.1409 in);

}



% Background Macro

def@drawBackground{

  begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]

    % Background

    fill[backgroundgray] (current page.north east) rectangle (current page.south west);

    fill[black]

    let p1 = (current page.north east) in

    let p2 = (current page.north west) in

    (x1,y1) rectangle (x2,y2 - 0.1667in);

    fill[black]

    let p1 = (current page.south east) in

    let p2 = (current page.south west) in

    (x1,y1) rectangle (x2,y2 + 0.3141in);

    fill[white]

    let p1 = (current page.north east) in

    let p2 = (current page.north west) in

    (x1,y1 - 0.1667in) rectangle (x2,y2 - .5289in);

    draw[thick,linegray]

    let p1 = (current page.north east) in

    let p2 = (current page.north west) in

    (x1,y1 - .5289in) -- (x2,y2 - .5289in);

    fill[white]

    let p1 = (current page.south east) in

    let p2 = (current page.south west) in

    (x1,y1 + 0.3141in) rectangle (x2,y2 + .6090in);

    draw[thick,linegray]

    let p1 = (current page.south east) in

    let p2 = (current page.south west) in

    (x1,y1 + .6090in) -- (x2,y2 + .6090in);



    % Kik Top bar decorations

      % Circles

    fill[circgray]

      let p1 = (current page.north east) in

        (x1 -.1987in,y1-.359in) circle (0.04065in);

    fill[circdarkgray]

      let p1 = (current page.north east) in

        (x1 -.15805in,y1-.31835in) circle (0.04065in);



      % Name

    draw

      let p1 = (current page.north west) in

        (x1 + .4647in, y1 - .3481in) node[anchor=west] {@partnerName};



      % Arrow

    draw[thick,circdarkgray]

      let p1 = (current page.north west) in

        (x1 + .1314in, y1 - .3397in) -- (x1 + .2179in , y1 - .3397in);

    draw[thick,circdarkgray]

      let p1 = (current page.north west) in

        (x1 + .1795in, y1 - .2981in) -- (x1 + .1314in, y1 - .3397in) --

        (x1 + .1795in, y1 - .3846in);



    % Kik Bottom Bar Decorations

      % Type a message...

    draw

      let p1 = (current page.south west) in

        (x1 + .3141in, y1 + .5524in) node[anchor=north west,scale=.85] {color{androidgray}Type a message...};



      % Plus

    draw[thick, androidgray]

      let p1 = (current page.south west) in

        (x1 + .1538in, y1 + .5321in) -- (x1 + .1538in,y1 + .4135in);

    draw[thick, androidgray]

      let p1 = (current page.south west) in

        (x1 + .0906in, y1 + .4728in) -- (x1 + .2088in, y1 + .4728in);



    % Android Top Bar Decorations

      % Time

    draw 

      let p1 = (current page.north east) in

        (x1,y1-0.01in) node[anchor=north east,scale=0.75] {color{androidgray}@hours:@minutes};



      % Republic Wireless

    draw[very thick,repwiregreen]

      let p1 = (current page.north west) in

        (x1 + .0701in, y1 - .0801in) to[bend left=90] (x1 + .1603in, y1 - .0801in);



      % Battery Indicator

    fill[androidgray]

      let p1 = (current page.north east) in

        (x1 - .3974in, y1 - .1406in) rectangle (x1 - .3213in,y1 - .0509in);

    fill[androidgray]

      let p1 = (current page.north east) in

        (x1 - .3784in, y1 - .0515in) rectangle (x1 - .3403in,y1 - .0379in);



      % Status Bars

      @statusbar{0}

      @statusbar{.02}

      @statusbar{.04}

      @statusbar{.06}

      @statusbar{.08}



    % Android Bottom Bar Decorations

    % Home

    draw[very thick,androidgray]

      let p1 = (current page.south) in

        (x1 - .1186in, y1 + .08974in) -- (x1 + .1186in, y1 + .08974in) -- 

        (x1 + .1186in, y1 + .1795in)  -- (x1, y1 + .2115in) -- 

        (x1 - .1186in, y1 + .1795in) -- cycle;



    % Pages

    draw[very thick,androidgray]

      let p1 = (current page.south east) in

        (x1 - .4391in, y1 + .1058in) rectangle (x1 - .6026in, y1 + .1795in);

    draw[very thick,androidgray]

      let p1 = (current page.south east) in

        (x1 - .3974in, y1 + .1346in) -- (x1 - .3974in, y1 + .2219in) --

        (x1 - .5545in, y1 + .2219in);



    % Back arrow

    draw[very thick,androidgray]

      let p1 = (current page.south west) in

        (x1 + .4199in, y1 + 0.1635in) -- (x1 + .5833in, y1 + 0.1635in) to[bend left=90]

        (x1 + .5833in, y1 + .0993in) -- (x1 + .5032in, y1 + .0993in);

    draw[very thick,androidgray]

      let p1 = (current page.south west) in

        (x1 + .4487in, y1 + .1987in) -- (x1 + .4199in, y1 + .1635in) -- (x1 + .4487in, y1 + .1282in);



  end{tikzpicture}

}



% Make the background appear on every page

usepackage{everypage}

AddEverypageHook{@drawBackground}





% Commands for use by the user.

defsetPartnerName#1{

  def@partnerName{#1}

}



defsetPartnerPic#1{

  def@partnerPic{#1}

}



defsetHours#1{

  def@hours{#1}

}



defsetMinutes#1{

  def@minutes{#1}

}



defme#1{

  hphantom{.}hfillbegin{tikzpicture}

    draw (0,0) node[anchor=north east,rectangle,rounded corners=2,fill=msggreen, scale=0.75,draw=circgray] {

      hspace{.1in}begin{varwidth}{1.5in}

        vphantom{.}

        raggedright #1\

        tiny color{msggreen}.

      end{varwidth}

      hspace{.1in}

    };

    fill[msggreen] (-0.01in,-0.06in) -- (0.06in,-0.12in) -- (-0.01in,-0.18in) -- cycle;

    draw[circgray] (0,-0.06in) -- (0.06in,-0.12in) -- (0in,-0.18in);

  end{tikzpicture}

  vspace{.05in}\

}



defyou#1{

  begin{tikzpicture}

    ifdefined@partnerPic

    draw (-.6,-.3) node[scale=1.825,circle, path picture={

        node at (path picture bounding box.center){

          includegraphics[width=.24in]{@partnerPic}

        };

      }

    ] {};

    elsefill[black] (-.6,-.3) circle (.12in);fi

    draw (0,0) node[anchor=north west,rectangle,rounded corners=2,fill=white, scale=0.75,draw=linegray] {

      hspace{.1in}begin{varwidth}[c]{1.5in}

        vphantom{.}

        raggedright #1\

        tiny color{white}.

      end{varwidth}

      hspace{.1in}

    };

    fill[white] (0.01in,-0.06in) -- (-0.06in,-0.12in) -- (0.01in,-0.18in) -- cycle;

    draw[linegray] (0,-0.06in) -- (-0.06in,-0.12in) -- (0in,-0.18in);

  end{tikzpicture}

  vspace{.05in}\

}



deftime#1#2{

  hphantom{.}hfilbegin{tikzpicture}

    draw (0,0) node[scale=.65] {color{kiktimepalegray}#1 color{kiktimedarkgray}@ #2};

  end{tikzpicture}hfil\

}

Source for the conversation:

documentclass{kik-android}



setPartnerName{Dave Johnson}

setPartnerPic{Man.jpg}

setHours{12}

setMinutes{11}



begin{document}

you{Knock knock}

me{Who's there?}

you{Canoe}

me{Canoe who?}

you{Canoe help me with my homework?}

time{Fri}{12:03 PM}

you{...please. I'm gonna fail calculus. :-(}

me{...}

end{document}

I'd like to add two new "styles of typography" which I created recently. The content is not exactly impressive but perhaps the typography is.

The first example document contains more of a regular "book style", with strong influence from the "tufte"-class, although I used somewhat different body text and captions. Here are the first four pages of the second chapter:

I also tried something more experimental. This more futuristic approach does not contain serifs, shows excessive use of notes in the margin, and it uses drop shadows for most figures. Also, I used a slightly less invasive colour pattern. Whatever, I just wanted to twist some rules. Here are some example pages (the real content has been substituted with sample text due to confidentiality issues):

• The TeX Showcase contains many
  examples.


• The AAUP SHOWBOOKS site shows Humanities books typeset with TeX


• 
  tufte-latex contains two classes and examples dedicated to the Tufte style

I scarcely cannot believe, that Christoph Schiller’s herculean 20 years effort of writing a
free physics textbook Motion Mountain is not on this list. Despite his criticism of LaTeX, which itself is interesting to read, the six volumes are produced with LaTeX. Beautifully typeset in MinionPro and Myriad extended by Johannes Küster’s Minion Math.

If I had to choose one project of which I wanted to see the LaTeX source of, it would be this book.

It's often said that the 19th century represented a nadir in typography, but I find many documents typeset in this period to be charmingly kitschy. I've recently undertaken a project to reproduce "Persecution of New Ideas", a notorious quacksalver's advertisement from an old 1875 railroad atlas. Here is the LaTeX reproduction, warts and all:

And here is the original:

Though there were some tricky bits, on the whole this wasn't terribly difficult to reproduce. The source code (and the generated PDF) is now available on GitHub: https://github.com/logological/blood

I try to pay attention to typography (and in particular French typography) details in the books I edit. Hopefully, the result is not too bad (I don't pretend to a typographist nor a graphist):

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  Calvinisme, Arminianisme & Parole de Dieu (published last year):

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  Charismatique ou charismaniaque ? (unpublished yet)

• 
  Sagesse pour Aujourd'hui (unpublished yet)

Lately, I've tried hard to bring acceptable typography to EPUB publishing, using the same LaTeX source (and some TeX4HT tricks). Here are some examples taken on Android with Aldiko:

And in Readium (Chrome extension):

The thesis of Eivind Uggedal is very nice: Social Navigation on
the Social Web: Unobtrusive Prototyping
of Activity Streams in
Established Spaces

The source is at http://bitbucket.org/uggedal/thesis/src/

I cannot resist to show what all kinds of documents can be done by LaTeX, and I add this style for children books done by Paulo

I got a directory "Beautiful TeX document" on my computer storing files that are beautiful and I might want to look at for inspiration when designing mine.

1. ArsClassica


2. ClassicThesis


3. the manual of pdfx


4. TKZdoc-linknodes-us

All of them can be found in CTAN. fontinstallationguide and tufte-sample-book have already been mentioned.

LaTeX companion 2nd edition has chapter-3 free on-line (http://www.latex-project.org/guides/tlc2-ch3.pdf). I think the typography is one of the finest.

Christoph Bier's typokurz is beautiful and useful; it's a 15-page guide to (German) (micro)typography in a nutshell. While it's just an article lengthwise (scrartcl, to be precise), it masterfully modifies many features frequently discussed on Tex.SX: section-titles, tables, footnotes, marginnotes, header ...

What's even better is that the preamble is available as well, it even is extensively annotated, but – that will be the downside for most users here – in German, just like the entire document is. Nonetheless, non-German speakers might still find their way around as well as some inspiration in the source code.

Update: Template available under Stack Exchange TeX Blog and/or my PHD project website.

I wrote a German PHD thesis in LaTeX. In addition I used the beamer class to create the slides for the final presentation. Both PDF files can be found here (Bedienhaptik.de).

Thesis

The thesis was made using the koma class book and all the diagrams are made with pgfplots and tikz. I also used the hyperref package of course.

I used two colors (red, blue) in the document that are used for structure elements like section and headings and the colors are also used in diagrams.

The colors are:

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  definecolor[named]{myLayoutColorMain}{RGB}{0,26,153} (blue)


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  definecolor[named]{myLayoutColorAux}{RGB}{174,49,54} (red)

I used sans serif fonts for captions (tables, figures) and in diagrams. I think this looks nicer.

Presentation

The presentation was naturally done with the beamer class in combination with tikz and pgfplots.

On slide 10 the presentation contains an animation (pgfplots and animate package).

In order to use the official university font (Helvetica Neue) I had to use LuaLaTeX. With the help of the community here I managed to work it out.

OK, so here is one "from the Friends". I am a great admirer of typographic skill of Hans Hagen and Metafun manual is one of my favourites. Also available is Metafun manual source.

I dedicated quite a bit of time to the typesetting of my Master's thesis. Therefore I am more than happy to share it with you.

https://www.politesi.polimi.it/bitstream/10589/92341/1/2014_04_Colombo.pdf

It is open source and available at https://github.com/gcedo/master-thesis/tree/master

I wonder why nobody suggested the original works of Donald Knuth. To me they are beautiful examples of typesetting. As far as I know, his books and papers are typeset using TeX (vs. LaTeX), but for the sake of the topic, I guess, it doesn't matter.

Some examples:

• The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP)


• The TeXbook


• The METAFONTbook

The complete list of Knuth's publications as well as preliminary drafts of the TAOCP Vol 4a chapters (in post script files) can be found on his home page. The sources of the TaOCP book (tex files) are also available in peer-to-peer networks.