From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/72922 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Title page for diploma thesis Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:02:18 +0100 Message-ID: <4EDB533A.7010605@wxs.nl> References: <1322926807.3532.19.camel@mattotaupa> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322996568 6045 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2011 11:02:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 11:02:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Menzel To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 04 12:02:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RX9q9-0005ze-Gw for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:02:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7376CB142; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:02:36 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 2D3WJ9Aai4bY; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:02:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F2ACB139; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:02:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCBE9CB139 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:02:32 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id lh2ZT3iwXAEe for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:02:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (filter3-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.71]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C694CCB111 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:02:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id pB4B2Uqv008019 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:02:30 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.3h2) with ESMTP (TLS) id 1297-1713362 for multiple; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:02:19 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <1322926807.3532.19.camel@mattotaupa> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0cG4X2uve - 176803960f0f - 20111204 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.71 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:72922 Archived-At: 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=3Dmiddle] > > \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 =93better=94? 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________