Book typesetting

Book typesetting

[Tony Keating]

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
Context. I have a few questions. 

1. How do I center some text on a page, i.e. the title page.

2. How do I set \chapter to always start on the right hand side.

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.

Thanks,
Tony.

-- 
Tony Keating <keating@mech.uq.edu.au> [http://www.mech.uq.edu.au/~tonyk]
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA

Re: Book typesetting

[Hans Hagen]

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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