Hello John, I was busy to make this some time ago. May that the attached file is a base for what you want to achieve.
Kind regards Willi
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On 5 mrt. 2014, at 16:43, john Culleton <j...@wexfordpress.com> wrote: > You have seen them in books from O'Reilly and > even in books like "TeX for the Impatient": > markings on the outer edge of each odd page that > bleed past the page edge indicating a particular > chapter. In the last named they are a simple > box with very fine horizontal black lines. In some > O'Reilly books like "Web Design in a Nutshell" > they are a black box with the chapter name > (possibly abbreviated) rotated 90 degrees in > small white text. > > No doubt I can do this in Context. The question > is what is the simplest and most foolproof way > home. > > Of course the page size will be made larger by > 0.125 inch on all sides except the spine edge to > provide a trim. The marker box I describe > protrudes into the trim area. And its location > and the text change for each chapter of > course. > > It is very hard in this country to get a book > review by the important pre-publication > reviewers like Booklist and Library Journal. But > that review is the key to among other things > library sales and academic sales. Edge markings > like I discuss above will immediately separate my > books from those slapped together in MSWord etc. > > I am just trying to get my books past the clerk in > the mail room who has orders to discard anything > that looks self-published. > > -- > John Culleton > Wexford Press > Free list of books for self-publishers: > http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html > PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" > available at > http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________
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