minimalist bundle: write you documents in a simple and clear way

The whole series have been rewritten with expl3. Please note that the documentations are not yet up-to-date. The syntax of some commands have been changed since the last version, especially the declaration of theorem-like environments by \CreateTheorem. For the moment, you can refer to the documentation of the package create-theorem.

Introduction

minimalist is a collection of styles and classes that helps you typesetting articles and books with a simple and clear design. It mainly consists of two parts.

• Main part:
  • minimalist.sty : interface of the main style
    • minimalist-plain.sty : the plain style
      • minimalist-classical.sty : the classical style
    • minimart.cls : class for typesetting articles
    • minimbook.cls : class for typesetting books

They can be used with any major TeX engine. Currently they have native
support to English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese
(European and Brazilian) and Spanish typesetting.

• Derivative part:
  • einfart.cls : more advanced class for typesetting articles
    • simplivre.cls : more advanced class for typesetting books

They are similar to the main classes, but have unicode support, thus can
only be used with either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. Currently they have native
support to Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Russian and Spanish
typesetting, and also use more beautiful fonts.

How to get these files

You can get the .sty and .cls files mentioned above simply by compiling minimalist.ins:

latex minimalist.ins

To get the .tex source files of the documentation, compile minimalist-doc.ins:

latex minimalist-doc.ins

Features

Compared with usual document classes, it has the following features:

• Native multi-language support: Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Russian and Spanish

In particular, for simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese and Japanese,

• > the fonts of the corresponding glyphs can be automatically switched
• Ready-to-use theorem-like environments, also with multi-language support
• Support both the standard and the AMS writing fashion

License

This work is released under the LaTeX Project Public License, v1.3c or later.