From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3978 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: layout rules (was: koma) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:08:04 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010206160804.00940100@server-1> References: <3.0.6.32.20010131144152.01c0c390@server-1> <01020100214102.30780@bilbo> <3.0.6.32.20010205101425.01c2ac70@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394678 21801 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:37:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:37:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt Original-To: angerweit@gmx.net In-Reply-To: <3A7ED8D0.46BA680C@gmx.net> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3978 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3978 At 05:46 PM 2/5/01 +0100, Hraban wrote: >Hans Hagen wrote: >> if you and Uwe cook up some basic styles, i can optimize them > >There's an easy type area algorithm implemented in the typearea >package, on that relies the koma-script package. (KoMa is for >Markus Kohm, not alcoholism...) i would write it from scratch anyway since i have a \definelayout macro on my to do list [needed for mid document changes and asymmetrical layouts] and maybe strategies fit in there >It is recommended by Jan Tschichold and called "n-Teilung" or >"9-er-Teilung". Ah, i wonder what the opinion of some dutch typographers on that would be -) >You divide page width and page height by a number n, that must >be greater than 5, for a good book layout n=9 is recommended. >The greater the number, the greater becomes the type area and >the smaller the margins. >You take 1/n of the width as the margin to the binding and 2/n >as the outer margin; 1/n of the height for the head and 2/n for >the foot margin -- that's all. There are a couple of more measures: header, footer, typesetting width of margin etc. actually, all default measures are defined relative to the papersize, which is why changing the papersize results in a change in layout specs. >There are much more algorithms and geometric constructions for >"classical" tpe areas, but they all have no big differences. > > >We'll meet in Rosenheim. Ok, take a photocopy from the Tschichold specs with you and we'll implement in there. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------