Re: Creeps (binding gutter / margin correction in imposition)

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>]

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> Henning Hraban Ramm <mailto:texml@fiee.net>
> 7. November 2016 um 08:33
> Hi together,
>
> this is not really a practical request, but an interesting (I think) 
> idea...
>
> ConTeXt can do simple imposition (arranging pages on sheets, see 
> \setuparranging), but in professional imposition you need to 
> compensate for the paper thickness in folds to keep pages readable - 
> you can move the outer pages of a fold out of the gutter (spine), or 
> move the inner pages to the spine. (This is called creep in English, 
> Bundversatz in German.) That means, your outer margin will have 
> different width, depending on the position of the page in its fold.
>
> See e.g. https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/printing-booklets.html
>
> A guy on the LilyPond mailing list had the interesting idea to adapt 
> the line width to this creep, to keep an even outer margin - it would 
> mean that TeX needs to know about imposition while breaking lines.
>
> What do you think?
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definepageshift
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setuppageshift

Wolfgang

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