Help with Long Titles

* Help with Long Titles
@ 2012-10-19  0:29 Malte Stien
  2012-10-19  6:11 ` Otared Kavian
  2012-10-19  6:59 ` Wolfgang Schuster
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Malte Stien @ 2012-10-19  0:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello,

I am using a the startsetups mechanism that defines a title page in my environment file. That way anyone creating a document in my organisation can create a new document and get a consistent look of the title page. There is one problem with this: On occasions I get very long document titles and then the title extends over the left-hand edge of the page. I would like to incorporate a new line into the document title; I'd even be happy to do that manually, ie. it does not have to be automatic.

There are two problems here:
1. I had not had any success with putting a newline into the title; it will need to be not where the titlepage is defined but where it is used (see below). I have tried \par and \\ and none of them work.
2. Assuming I found a way to do this, I would need to also find a way of reducing the \blank[170mm] by the amount that the second line of the title takes up to render the information down the bottom in roughly the same place. If push comes to shove, I could create a second titlepage setup for two-line titles, but I much rather not. Is there a solution to that? Is there maybe a way to position the information down the bottom absolute?

Here is  minimal example (or something very close to that):

% The title page
\startsetups titlepage
	\startstandardmakeup[style=sans]
	\blank[50mm]
	\rightaligned{\bfd\getvariable{titlepage}{project}}
	\textrule
	\rightaligned{\tfc\color[darkgray]{\getvariable{titlepage}{title}}}
	\blank[170mm]
	\starttabulate[|plf{\tfa}|prf{\tfa}|]
	\NC\tfa\copyright\thinspace Pearson Pty Ltd  \NC                    \getvariable{titlepage}{author} \NC\NR
	\TB[small]
	\NC \color[darkgray]{Commercial in Confidence} \NC \color[darkgray]{\getvariable{titlepage}{version}} \NC\NR
	\stoptabulate
	\tfx Uncontrolled copy if printed.
	\stopstandardmakeup
\stopsetups

% ...and this is how it is being used
\starttext
\setvariables
	[titlepage]
	[set=\texsetup{titlepage},
	project={Pearson},
	title={This document title is very long, so I'd like to \par break it into two lines},
	author={Tony Mueller},
	version={Version 1.0.0}]
\stoptext

Thank you very much for all the help I have received so far.

Regards,
Malte.

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