preamble.tex

% turn off page header titles
\pagestyle{plain}
% change language to german
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
% better hyphenation
\usepackage[ngerman=ngerman-x-latest]{hyphsubst}
% turn off bibliography at the end of document
\let\pby\printbibliography
\renewcommand{\printbibliography}{}
% footnotes in tables
\usepackage{tablefootnote}
% promille symbol
\usepackage{textcomp}
% move all figures and tables to the end of the document
\usepackage[nomarkers,notables,nofiglist]{endfloat}
\AtBeginFigures{\setcounter{chapter}{0}}
\renewcommand{\figuresection}{Abbildungen}
% change name of list of figures to <empty>
\addto\captionsngerman{
  \renewcommand{\listfigurename}{}
}
% fancy headers
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
% section header formatting
%raggedright prevents hyphenation in titles
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\bfseries\raggedright}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{-25pt}{25pt}
\titleformat{\section}[display]{\normalfont\Large\bfseries\raggedright}{\thesection}{0pt}{}
\titleformat{\subsection}[display]{\normalfont\large\bfseries\raggedright}{\thesubsection}{0pt}{}
\titleformat{\subsubsection}[display]{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries\raggedright}{\thesubsubsection}{0pt}{}
\titleformat{\paragraph}[runin]{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries\raggedright}{}{0pt}{}
\titleformat{\subparagraph}[runin]{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries\raggedright}{}{0pt}{}
% figure rotation
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\DeclareDelayedFloatFlavor{landscape}{figure}
% ignore fields in citations
\DeclareSourcemap{
  \maps[datatype=bibtex]{
    \map{
      \step[fieldset=note,null]
      \step[fieldset=isbn,null]
      \step[fieldset=issn,null]
      \step[fieldset=language,null]
      \step[fieldset=month,null]
      \step[fieldset=publisher,null]
      \step[fieldset=pagetotal,null]
    }
  }
}
% better removal of orphaned and widowed lines
\usepackage[all]{nowidow}
% control footnote margin

\usepackage[hang]{footmisc}
\setlength\footnotemargin{13pt}
% this redefinition is only necessary for the end period
\makeatletter%
\long\def\@makefntext#1{%
  \bgroup
  \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{%
    \ifdim\footnotemargin>0pt
      \hb@xt@\footnotemargin{\@makefnmark\hss}%
    \else
      \@makefnmark
    \fi
  }%
  \leftmargin\wd\@tempboxa
  \rightmargin\z@
  \linewidth \columnwidth
  \advance \linewidth -\leftmargin
  \parshape \@ne \leftmargin \linewidth
  \footnotesize
  \@setpar{{\@@par}}%
  \leavevmode
  \llap{\box\@tempboxa}%
  \parskip\hangfootparskip\relax
  \parindent\hangfootparindent\relax
  \footnotelayout#1%
  % end every footnote with a period, if it not already has one
  % french spacing has to be turned off for this solution to work
  \ifnum\the\spacefactor<3000.\fi
  \par\egroup
}
\makeatother