starttitlepagemakeup

[juh2]

Some styles for titlepagemakeup seems to be hardcoded in pandoc-xhtml.tex. For eg. italic font for titles and small caps for authors.

Is it possible to override these styles in an style environment?

Wouldn't it be better if such things were not defined in pandoc-xhtml.tex

[ousia]

I agree, @juh2.

I realized that before, but I was too lazy to think of a solution 😃.

Do you need only style or align and other properties should be different for you?

[juh2]

Sorry for answering late. I cannot tell exactly what I need, because for now I haven't decided about the layout of the book at all. Styles and Align sounds reasonable.

[juh2]

Hi @ousia

I just came across this: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/details.pdf

On page 9 a horizontal grid is described. Keyword is horizontal fake columns. Is this a reasonable way of positioning titles, epigraphs and dedications on a page?

[ousia]

@juh2,

I’m afraid I have never used grids (either vertical or horizontal).

I wonder whether this might be a much more complicated way of doing things.

This question comes from my ignorance: what could be achieved with horizontal grid that it is much harder (or even impossible) with other means?

The way I position elements such as titles, epigraphs and dedications are related to the page or text area itself, not to some part of it (in both horizontal and vertical axes).

[juh2]

Grids are the usual way to position elements in desktop publishing programs. I often work together with designers that are grid oriented. For this use case you certainly don't need them. But maybe for a multicolumn document grids might be a good approach. I'll have a look at them as soon as I have a little spare time.

[juh2]

I attach a screenshot of my current project. If titles are on two lines the vertical space between the lines is too small. And it would be better if titles are not justified but left aligned.

[ousia]

The original style environment (from-pandoc-to-context.tex) contains the following lines:

\definemakeup
    [titlepage]
    [align={middle},
     doublesided=no,
     pagestate=start]

You can always setup align=right.

As for the interline space, the fastest way (before I find the time for a better solution) would be to replace in pandoc-xhtml.tex:

{\itd\xmltext{#1}{h1[@class='title']}\par}\blank[big]
{\resetbreakpoints\itb\setupinterlinespace \xmltext{#1}{h1[@class='subtitle']}\par}\blank[3*big]
{\sc \xmlconcat{#1}{/h2[contains(@class,'author')]}{\\}}

with

{\itd\setupinterlinespace[line=2.8ex]
\xmltext{#1}{h1[@class='title']}\par}\blank[big]
{\resetbreakpoints\itb\setupinterlinespace \xmltext{#1}{h1[@class='subtitle']}\par}\blank[3*big]
{\sc \xmlconcat{#1}{/h2[contains(@class,'author')]}{\\}}

[juh2]

Thanks a lot. This fixes the issue for now. :-)