Re: [NTG-context] Placing marks at edge.
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 20:49:03 +0100 Willi Egger wrote: > 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 Compiles correctly. A brilliant solution. That gets me 3/4 of the way to my objective. The remainder requires that the margin marks be shown only on odd pages, or else switched to the left hand margin for even pages. Thinks for sharing your solution to this pesky problem. -- 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Placing marks at edge.
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 Thumbnails-MKIV.tex Description: Binary data On 5 mrt. 2014, at 16:43, john Culleton 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 > ___ ___ 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 ___
[NTG-context] Placing marks at edge.
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 ___
