Re: [NTG-context] Placing marks at edge.

2014-03-05 Thread Willi Egger
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
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Re: [NTG-context] Placing marks at edge.

2014-03-05 Thread john Culleton
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 20:49:03 +0100
Willi Egger cont...@boede.nl 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
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