From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Help on centering text inside the standard makeup
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:33:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0B197FD4-9DDD-4B33-BA54-339635B4EF0B@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bosij132.fsf@universe.krase.net>
Am 11.11.2011 um 13:27 schrieb Marco Pessotto:
>
> Hello!
>
> I have some problem centering the text inside the standardmakeup. The
> resulting alignment is centered, yes, but relative to the text block of
> the defined layout, and being a doublesided document, the left space is
> lesser then the right space (which is not what I wanted, as it's
> supposed to be the cover of a booklet).
>
> For example:
>
> %%%%%%%%%
> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
> \showframe
>
> \starttext
>
> \startstandardmakeup
> \raggedcenter
> This should be the long title
> \stopstandardmakeup
>
> \input tufte
>
> \stoptext
> %%%%%%%%%
>
>
> The \showframe still shows the defined layout for the whole document.
>
> I'm reading from Layouts in Context that the standard makeup should
> “exclude text from the standard pagebody and its layout”.
>
> The other solution could using frames, layers and the backgrounds, but
> I'm pretty sure I'm missing something here and that using the makups is
> the right thing to do.
>
> Setting width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight makes the thing
> worse. It's like the width starts at the text block of the defined
> layout.
>
> %%%%%%%%%
> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
> \showframe
>
> \definemakeup[titlepage][width=\paperwidth,
> height=\paperheight,voffset=0mm,hoffset=0mm]
>
> \starttext
>
> \starttitlepagemakeup
> \raggedcenter
> \bfc This should be the long, long, very long title
> \stoptitlepagemakeup
>
> \input tufte
>
> \stoptext
As a new feature in MkIV there is also a layout with the same name as the makeup
environment and you can control the margins of your new title page environment
with \setuplayout[titlepage][…].
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-11 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-11 12:27 Marco Pessotto
2011-11-11 12:59 ` Andreas Harder
2011-11-11 13:33 ` Marco Pessotto
2011-11-11 13:33 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2011-11-11 14:43 ` Marco Pessotto
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