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.
LaTex version
XeLaTex version
Sample code
\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 \aldineleft\decothreeright \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
\def\headrule{{\color{darkgray}\raisebox{-2.1pt}[10pt][10pt]{\leafright} \hrulefill \raisebox{-2.1pt}[10pt][10pt]{~~~\decofourleft \decotwo\decofourright~~~} \hrulefill \raisebox{-2.1pt}[10pt][10pt]{ \leafleft}}}
\makeatother
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{#1}}
\newcommand{\estcab}[1]{\itshape\textcolor{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]{\bf\nouppercase{ \leftmark}}
% \fancyfoot[LE]{\bf \thepage ~~ \leafNE}
% \fancyfoot[RO]{ \leafNE ~~ \bf \thepage}
\fancyfoot[LO]{
\ornimpar \\ \large \hfill \sffamily\bf \textcolor{darkgray}{\leafNE ~~~ \thepage}
}
\fancyfoot[RE]{\ornpar \\ \large \sffamily\bf \textcolor{darkgray}{\thepage ~~~ \reflectbox{\leafNE}} \hfill}
\newenvironment{Section}[1]
{\section{\vspace{0ex}#1}}
{\vspace{12pt}\centering ------- \decofourleft\decofourright ------- \par}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\setlength{\parindent}{1em} % Sangría española
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\footnoterule}{\vspace{-0.5em}\noindent\textcolor{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{Plant\ae}
\lettrine[lines=3]{\initfamily\textcolor{darkgreen}{T}}{he classic} kingdom \emph{Plant\ae} (Haeckel, 1866
include all the multicellular green plants (\emph{Viridiplant\ae} in Latin) as flowering
plants, conifers, ferns, mosses and green algae. The number of species
are estimated\footnote{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 Linn\ae us (1707--1778) who
divided the natural world into animals, plants and minerals. The kingdom \emph{Animalia} and \emph{Plant\ae} remained
in use by modern evolutionary biologists until some years.
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.26\textwidth}
\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{Plant\ae}.}.
\lipsum[2]
\lipsum[3]
\ornamento
\section{Fungi}
\lettrine[lines=3]{\initfamily\textcolor{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) & $2.5\times10^5$ \\
Hawksworth (1991) & $1.5\times10^6$ \\
O’Brien \emph{et al.} (2005) & $>3.5\times10^6$ \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{wraptable}
\lipsum[4-6]
\end{document}
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.
A recent edition to the pstricks family is a set of "Vectorian ornaments" used for decorating text.
The coloredlettrine package aims to provide beautiful colored drop caps to LaTeX, using the EB Garamond font
