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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Title page for diploma thesis
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:02:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EDB533A.7010605@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322926807.3532.19.camel@mattotaupa>

On 3-12-2011 16:40, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear ConTeXt folks,
>
>
> I am trying to format the title page for a diploma thesis. Looking at
> the Wiki most of the title or cover pages just have the title centered
> and maybe a subtitle right below [1].
>
>          \starttext
>          \definemakeup[titlepage][align=middle]
>
>          \starttitlepagemakeup
>          {\definedfont[Serif at 20pt]University}
>          \blank[big]
>          {\definedfont[Serif at 20pt]\sc Institute}
>          \vfill
>          {\definedfont[Serif at 20pt]Diploma thesis}
>          \blank[big]
>          {\definedfont[Serif at 30pt] \setstrut \strut Interesting topic}
>          \vfill
>          by John Doe
>          \stoptitlepagemakeup
>          \stoptext
>
> 1. Is using `\blank` the recommended way to format the page? Or is using
> boxes and placing them manually “better”?

Normally I go for this quick and dirty first but eventually end up with 
a page made with the layer mechanism (there is info on layers on the 
wiki or grep the s-* files for examples.).

> 2. Looking at the output it is not centered exactly and a little bit to
> the left. Why is this the default? Does anyone know? Looking at the
> manual [2] in chapter page design (p. 29, screen version) this seems to
> be the backspace value. Is there an easy way to center it according to
> the whole paper width? Additionally I would have guessed it to be more
> on the right when glueing or trussing up(?) (German binden) the pages.

because the default layout is not centered and standardmakeup uses the 
standard layout

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-04 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-03 15:40 Paul Menzel
2011-12-04 11:02 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-12-04 11:15 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-12-04 11:24 ` Willi Egger
2011-12-04 11:43   ` Willi Egger

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