From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Book typesetting
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:10:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991221111014.00b05bf0@pop.wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19991221091852.A1832@mars.rcode.com.au>
At 09:18 AM 12/21/99 +1000, Tony Keating wrote:
>In an attempt to learn a few things, I've grabbed the Project Gutenberg
>source to The Three Musketeers and am in the process of PDFing it using
Nice testing stuff. I've got some preliminary styles for those -)
>Context. I have a few questions.
>
>1. How do I center some text on a page, i.e. the title page.
\startstandardmakeup
\setupalign[middle]
\blank[4*big]
\bfd\setupspacing Some Big Title
\vfill
\stopstandardmakeup
>2. How do I set \chapter to always start on the right hand side.
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
(default is: \setuphead[chapter][page=right])
>3. How do I add some whitespace before the chapter text on that page (I
>tried using \setuphead[chapter][before={\blank[4*line]}] but that doesn't
>seem to work.
\blank[force,4*line]
(normally glue disappears on top of a page)
Hans
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