From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/1459 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Book typesetting Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:10:14 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991221111014.00b05bf0@pop.wxs.nl> References: <19991221091852.A1832@mars.rcode.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035392284 496 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:58:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:58:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Tony Keating In-Reply-To: <19991221091852.A1832@mars.rcode.com.au> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:1459 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:1459 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------