Re: Title page for diploma thesis

[Willi Egger <context@boede.nl>]

Sorry for the wrong statement about the centered page on the paper. - Humble I use often width=middle and height=middle ;-) and end up with setting up the parameters indvidually.

Willi
On 4 Dec 2011, at 12:24, Willi Egger wrote:

> 
> On 3 Dec 2011, at 16:40, Paul Menzel wrote:
> 
>> 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}
>>       \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”?
> 
> There are different ways to do this. If your solution give the result you desire... Not knowing wether this is better I use sometimes \godown[dimension]
> 
> 
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Default is, that the page is centered on the paper, if the page and paper size are the same. However if you want a binding correction 
> you need to do calculations yourself in order to be able to set the parameters correct ly.  
> 
> Check  for the setuplayout command. 
> 
> \setuplayout
>   [ backspace= left white+binding correction,
>     width= text width which leaves enough whitespace at the right including some cut space,
>     topspace= top white including cut space,
>     height= text height including header and footer space, leaving enough bottom white and cut space,
>     leftmargin= backspace - binding correction -  left margin distance,
>     leftmargindistance= ...,
>     rightmargin= ...,
>     rightmargindistance= ...,
>     marking=on,
>     ...
> 
> Keep in mind that a book normally is cut after binding the bookblock at the front, top and bottom that is what I indicate with cut  space.
> Backspace and topspace define the upper left corner of the typesetting area. Margin parameters do not influence the positioning of the typesetting area!
> 
> 
> Willi
> 
>> 
>> Thanks and I am sorry for the sleight off-topic second question,
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
>> [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Cover_Page
>> [2] http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf
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