From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Automatic landscape figure rotation
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:16:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF77B36.7090706@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17d4l81vfcvof.dlg@nililand.de>
On 06/14/2011 04:26 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:29:44 +1200 schrieb Pontus Lurcock:
>
>> I have a full-page, landscape figure in my double-sided document which
>> I rotate 90° to fit the page. In all the books I've seen, such figures
>> are rotated ‘outward’ -- i.e. with the top towards the binding, so 90°
>> clockwise on verso pages and 90° anticlockwise on recto.
>
> I have seen this rotation too but I don't find them really good. If
> you have two such figures on a double page you will have to rotate
> the book by 180° to see them both. Also if you hold the book in your
> left hand and change the pages with the right hand it is more
> natural to turn the book clockwise to read something in landscape.
>
> So I would put everything with the top to the left side, and if you
> don't like this on left pages: Put landscape figures only on right
> pages.
So that is what 'left' and 'right' are for.
Best wishes,
Taco
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-14 9:29 Pontus Lurcock
2011-06-14 9:40 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-14 10:15 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-14 10:41 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-14 10:54 ` luigi scarso
2011-06-14 11:54 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-06-14 13:39 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-14 13:51 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-06-14 14:05 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-14 14:26 ` Ulrike Fischer
2011-06-14 15:16 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2011-06-14 22:54 ` Pontus Lurcock
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