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From: Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: extra blank page in front of standardmakeup
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:59:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ABFF545E-EE41-4FB0-BF96-A1EA5C871B5D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikGgT0agAUwKXRpoyCRxGKPB4dhFQvq+4ROaR9V@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Mojca,

Both your example and Wolfgang's suggestion work fine with my installation (Minimals on Mac OS X 10.6.3, ConTeXt  ver: 2010.08.20 00:00) either with mkii, or mkiv.

Maybe you ahve a problem with your installation?

Best regards: OK

On 27 août 2010, at 16:53, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:47, Wolfgang Schuster
> <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>  Am 27.08.10 12:28, schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>>> 
>>> Dear list,
>>> 
>>> how can I prevent a blank page in front of title page in MKIV (apart
>>> from the fact that font switching is not working)? In MKII this is
>>> working perfectly fine.
>>> 
>>> \starttext
>>> \startstandardmakeup
>>> {\switchtobodyfont[50pt]\bf\centerline{Title}}
>>> \vskip 3cm
>>> {\switchtobodyfont[20pt]\centerline{\sl(manual)}} % \sl doesn't work
>>> either
>>> \stopstandardmakeup
>> 
>> Try to avoid \switchtobodyfont if possible.
>> 
>> \startstandardmakeup[align=middle]
>> {\definedfont[Bold at 50pt]Title}
>> \blank[3cm]
>> {\definedfont[Slanted at 20pt](manual)}
>> \stopstandardmakeup
> 
> I don't know what exactly is going on here, but not even
> \definedfont[Bold at 50pt] changes the font size. (Yes, I agree that
> it's a much better option to use this in comparison to
> \switchtobodyfont, I only slightly forgot about this alternative;
> thanks; but it doesn't work any better at the moment.)
> 
> (It could be something weird with my installation as well.)
> 
> Mojca
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-28  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-27 10:28 Mojca Miklavec
2010-08-27 10:55 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-27 13:47 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-27 14:53   ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-08-28  6:59     ` Otared Kavian [this message]
2010-08-29 10:37       ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-08-28  8:28     ` Hans Hagen

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