From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
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, 4 Dec 2011 12:15:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60B67CB3-D166-44EF-A1AD-85AECC6FACCE@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322926807.3532.19.camel@mattotaupa>
Am 03.12.2011 um 16:40 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> 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}
{\definedfont[SerifCaps at 20pt]…}
> \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”?
>
> 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.
You can switch to a centered layout for the titlepage with
\setuplayout[titlepage][width=middle]
As Hans told the default layout is not centered because when you’re using
a docublesided document the sum of the inner margin on the left and right
page should be equal to the width of the outer margin. To compensate for
the loss at the inner margin you can increase the backspace with
\setuplayout[backspace=<dimension> % default: 2.5cm for A4 paper
Wolfgang
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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
2011-12-04 11:15 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2011-12-04 11:24 ` Willi Egger
2011-12-04 11:43 ` Willi Egger
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