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
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
On 5 mrt. 2014, at 16:43, john Culleton
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!
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 20:49:03 +0100
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
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
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