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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To my delight, I discovered a LaTeX package specifically designed for liturgical use within the Church. It is called \u201cliturg\u201d, and can be easily added using this command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\\usepackage{liturg}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nUntil 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have also set up a dedicated GitHub repository<\/a> and website<\/a> to host both the compiled PDFs and the TeX source files, so this will be my “Liturgical Database”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 … Continue reading