Re: two newbie questions (about conditional processing)

[Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a new book to design, but I don't know how to do page/content
> conditional processing). Please help me:)
>
> - I want my chapter page (first page of each chapter) to be really
> distinctive. that is, I define a dark color background, and want all
> the text on the first page set in white. how can I do that? for
> example
> \chapter{hello}
> \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf } % all the characters in the first page
> should white, others should set in black.
This must have something to do with the OTR, I'm really not good
at that.

By \definecolor[black][r=1, g=1, b=1] you can get white texts which
maybe useful for you.
>
> - I want to insert graphics and images. all the graphics are inserted
> using \placeexternalfigures. I want all the pages where the insertion
> happens to be quite distictive (that is, have a very narrow text
> layout, and leave the large margin for the figures. However, when a
> page starts, TeX does not know wheter or not an external figure will
> be placed on this page, so it really has no idea whether this page
> should be set narrower or not..... how can I do that?
Sounds like an \insert like footnote. Good luck.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Yue Wang
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