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From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Setting `before` option of chapter breaks header text
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:59:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140114165932.5e8c9a77@localb.wexfordpress.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2ABC2648-7AA2-4A36-BBE0-AC466AADA8FB@gmail.com>

On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 20:32:30 +0200
Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 
> Am 03.09.2013 um 20:22 schrieb Michael Scholtz
> <scmicha@gmail.com>:
> 
> > I tried `\blank` commands in `before`, but it
> > seems to have to effect. A space before
> > `\blank` (like `before={\ \blank[5em]}`)
> > makes it work, but is not so nice.
> 
> TeX ignores a \blank at the begin of a page, to
> force the space you can
> “before=\blank[force,<value>]”.
> 
> > But using `toffset` and `boffset` does the
> > job, even without `\blank`s:
> 
> This is wrong because the toffset and buffet
> control the margins *in* the boy and not around
> the box.
> 
> Wolfgang
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>

If the before option is just for space then how
do I place a fleuron centered above the chapter
title? That is what the customer wants.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-14 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-03 14:02 Michael Scholtz
2013-09-03 14:13 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-03 14:32   ` Michael Scholtz
2013-09-03 15:54     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-03 18:22       ` Michael Scholtz
2013-09-03 18:32         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-03 18:50           ` Michael Scholtz
2014-01-14 21:59           ` john Culleton [this message]
2014-01-15  9:10             ` Hans Hagen
2014-01-15 19:42             ` john Culleton

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