From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@freedom.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Spacing between Chapter title and first paragraph sometimes changes
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:08:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a3c8ff7-9069-4bff-97ca-df9575eedf75@freedom.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3332601-40a2-424f-8ba2-d3f282a247f0@gmail.com>
On 1/13/2025 6:09 PM, Keith McKay wrote:
> H,
>
> I'm typesetting a memoir for a friend and I've come across a strange
> problem which I'm trying to solve. The memoir will be A5 format and has
> quite a few chapters which are less than a page long. I noticed that for
> some chapters the distance between the the chapter head and the first
> paragraph were not aligned in double page view. You can see this quite
> clearly in the attached screenshot.
>
> I was given a docx file consisting of 80 chapters and and appendices
> which I converted to individual xhtml files. The resulting xhtml files
> are very simple and the format is as follows:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
>
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>
> <head>
>
> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../styles/style001.css" type="text/css" />
>
> <title></title>
>
> </head>
>
> <body>
>
> <h2 id="heading_id_no>Chapter Number</h2>
>
> <p>Some text</p>
>
> <p>Some text</p>
>
> <p>And so on...</p>
>
> </body>
>
> </html>
>
> In some of the xhtml files I have added <div>...</div> for layout
> purposes and also inserted images.
>
> I use xmlsetups to typeset the tags as follows:
>
> \startxmlsetups xml:html
>
> \xmlflush{#1}
>
> \stopxmlsetups
>
> \startxmlsetups xml:body
>
> \xmlflush{#1}
>
> \stopxmlsetups
>
> \startxmlsetups xml:h2
>
> \page
>
> \chapter{\xmlflush{#1}}
>
> \stopxmlsetups
>
> \startxmlsetups xml:p
> \xmlflush{#1}\par
> \stopxmlsetups
>
> along with a few others for divs, images and some other tags.
>
> For the chapters setup I use:
>
> \setuphead[chapter][page=no,
>
> number=no,
>
> header=empty,
>
> align=middle,
>
> after={\blank[3cm]}]
>
> I would expect that using this \setuphead, there should be a gap of
> three cm between the head text and the first paragraph, however in a few
> chapters this does not happen and an extra blank line is either added or
> subtracted to the gap.
>
> I'm obviously missing something simple and struggling to find a solution
> to correct this problem so I would be grateful for any hints on how to
> go about it.
hard to guess ... so how do these h2's look compared to each other
maybe use
\chapter{\xmltext{#1}}
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2025-01-13 17:09 [NTG-context] " Keith McKay
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2025-01-13 19:52 ` [NTG-context] " Keith McKay
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