Dear Andrè,
I’ve just seen the latest version of your beautiful ClassicThesis style. Your work is awesome as usual, but let me see I didn’t appreciate a lot your idea of the classicthesis-preamble.sty file, for the following reasons:
1. now the user has to modify manually a .sty file (which in \emph{never} a good idea);
2. classicthesis-preamble.sty loads a lot of packages (what’s more, via the \RequirePackage command, which is quite unusual for a “common” user): this way you can’t easily see, skimming the main .tex file, the packages loaded in the document;
3. the name “classicthesis-preamble” is not very well-made, since the preamble of the document contains (but not is) classicthesis-preamble.sty.
I suggest you to adopt the following structure for your (classic)thesis template:
`\documentclass[…]{scrreprt}
\usepackage{…}
\usepackage{xspace,mparhack,fixltx2e,relsize} % formerly loaded by classicthesis-preamble.sty
\usepackage{…}
\usepackage[…]{classicthesis}
\input{classicthesis-settings}
\begin{document}
\input{…}
\input{…}
…
\end{document}`
where classicthesis-settings.tex (which has to be loaded \emph{after} classicthesis) doesn’t load any package but contains personal commands and environments, commands like \author and \title, and the settings of the packages loaded, for example:
`% ********************************************************************
% classicthesis-settings.tex
% ********************************************************************
\newcommand{\myTitle}{… }
\newcommand{\mySubtitle}{… }
…
% ********************************************************************
% captionsetup
% ********************************************************************
\captionsetup{format=hang,font=small}
% ********************************************************************
% hyperreferences
% ********************************************************************
\hypersetup{%
colorlinks=true, linktocpage=true, pdfstartpage=1, pdfstartview=FitV,
breaklinks=true, pdfpagemode=UseNone, pageanchor=true, pdfpagemode=UseOutlines,
plainpages=false, bookmarksnumbered, bookmarksopen=true, bookmarksopenlevel=1,
hypertexnames=true, pdfhighlight=/O,
urlcolor=webbrown, linkcolor=RoyalBlue, citecolor=webgreen,
pdftitle={\myTitle},%
pdfauthor={\textcopyright\ \myName, \myUni, \myFaculty},%
pdfsubject={},%
pdfkeywords={},%
pdfcreator={pdfLaTeX},%
pdfproducer={LaTeX with hyperref and classicthesis}%
} `
This way I think the structure of the document would be clearer and easier.
Best wishes,
Lorenzo Pantieri