On 3-12-2011 16:40, Paul Menzel wrote:
Dear ConTeXt folks,
I am trying to format the title page for a diploma thesis. Looking at the Wiki most of the title or cover pages just have the title centered and maybe a subtitle right below [1].
\starttext \definemakeup[titlepage][align=middle]
\starttitlepagemakeup {\definedfont[Serif at 20pt]University} \blank[big] {\definedfont[Serif at 20pt]\sc Institute} \vfill {\definedfont[Serif at 20pt]Diploma thesis} \blank[big] {\definedfont[Serif at 30pt] \setstrut \strut Interesting topic} \vfill by John Doe \stoptitlepagemakeup \stoptext
1. Is using `\blank` the recommended way to format the page? Or is using boxes and placing them manually “better”?
Normally I go for this quick and dirty first but eventually end up with a page made with the layer mechanism (there is info on layers on the wiki or grep the s-* files for examples.).
2. Looking at the output it is not centered exactly and a little bit to the left. Why is this the default? Does anyone know? Looking at the manual [2] in chapter page design (p. 29, screen version) this seems to be the backspace value. Is there an easy way to center it according to the whole paper width? Additionally I would have guessed it to be more on the right when glueing or trussing up(?) (German binden) the pages.
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