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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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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