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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Setting `before` option of chapter breaks header text
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:10:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D65090.4060207@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140114165932.5e8c9a77@localb.wexfordpress.net>

On 1/14/2014 10:59 PM, john Culleton wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 20:32:30 +0200
> Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 03.09.2013 um 20:22 schrieb Michael Scholtz
>> <scmicha@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I tried `\blank` commands in `before`, but it
>>> seems to have to effect. A space before
>>> `\blank` (like `before={\ \blank[5em]}`)
>>> makes it work, but is not so nice.
>>
>> TeX ignores a \blank at the begin of a page, to
>> force the space you can
>> “before=\blank[force,<value>]”.
>>
>>> But using `toffset` and `boffset` does the
>>> job, even without `\blank`s:
>>
>> This is wrong because the toffset and buffet
>> control the margins *in* the boy and not around
>> the box.
>>
>> Wolfgang
>> ___________________________________________________________________________________
>> If your question is of interest to others as
>> well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
>>
>>
>
> If the before option is just for space then how
> do I place a fleuron centered above the chapter
> title? That is what the customer wants.

before={\page\fleuron\blank}

or so, assuming \fleuron exists

or otherwise a command hooked into the title renderer


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-15  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-03 14:02 Michael Scholtz
2013-09-03 14:13 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-03 14:32   ` Michael Scholtz
2013-09-03 15:54     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-03 18:22       ` Michael Scholtz
2013-09-03 18:32         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-03 18:50           ` Michael Scholtz
2014-01-14 21:59           ` john Culleton
2014-01-15  9:10             ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2014-01-15 19:42             ` john Culleton

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