As some of you may know, one of my personal hobbies is designing liturgical books — especially Orders of Holy Mass and other texts for liturgical use.
In the past, I relied on Microsoft Word to edit and compile these works. Recently, however, I have begun transitioning to LaTeX, a powerful typesetting system commonly used for theses, academic articles, and books. One of its greatest strengths is the ability to extend functionality through packages.
To my delight, I discovered a LaTeX package specifically designed for liturgical use within the Church. It is called “liturg”, and can be easily added using this command:
\usepackage{liturg}Until now, I have completed two projects using LaTeX: an Order of Holy Mass in Latin (Novus Ordo), and the Pre-1955 Good Friday Mass of the Presanctified.
I have also set up a dedicated GitHub repository and website to host both the compiled PDFs and the TeX source files, so this will be my “Liturgical Database”.