Re: [XeTeX] centering using geometry package

2011-11-20 Thread Axel E. Retif
On 11/20/2011 01:48 AM, Kevin Godby wrote: The vertical line on the far right is showing where the marginpar area starts. That vertical line is the left margin of the \marginpars. The distance between the right edge of your box and that vertical line is \marginparsep. The width of the marginp

Re: [XeTeX] centering using geometry package

2011-11-20 Thread Daniel Greenhoe
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Kevin Godby wrote: > The vertical line on the far right is showing where the marginpar area starts. Thank for your excellent explanation. I invoked the options nomarginpar and noheadfoot and everything seems to work great. Nary an extraneous line anywhere. Thank

Re: [XeTeX] centering using geometry package

2011-11-20 Thread Daniel Greenhoe
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Axel E. Retif wrote: > ... your document has a page number. You need to put > \thispagestyle{empty} That is a good idea. I did put it in. Thanks! > ...use the crop package ... I like this idea and did try it on the real cover design. However, I seem to be havin

Re: [XeTeX] centering using geometry package

2011-11-20 Thread Axel E. Retif
On 11/20/2011 03:50 AM, Daniel Greenhoe wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Axel E. Retif wrote: [...] ...use the crop package ... I like this idea and did try it on the real cover design. However, I seem to be having some problems. With time, I'm sure they could be solved. But for ri

Re: [XeTeX] centering using geometry package

2011-11-20 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/20 Axel E. Retif : > On 11/20/2011 03:50 AM, Daniel Greenhoe wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Axel E. Retif  wrote: > > [...] > >>> ...use the crop package ... >> >> I like this idea and did try it on the real cover design. However, I >> seem to be having some problems. With tim

Re: [XeTeX] centering using geometry package

2011-11-20 Thread Axel E. Retif
On 11/20/2011 06:51 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2011/11/20 Axel E. Retif: [...] That's where crop marks come handy ---they indicate the intended trimmed size; the rest of the image in, then, the bleed. ...the rest of the image *is*, then, the bleed. My zwpagelayout can do both crop marks as

Re: [XeTeX] cmyk encoded files

2011-11-20 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/20 Daniel Greenhoe : > 2011/11/20 Zdenek Wagner : >> Printed colour samples are commercially available. >> They are printed on different types of papers and CMYK values are given. > > Is there any such thing available in book form? That is, could you > make a recommendation? Here in Taiwan,

Re: [XeTeX] cmyk encoded files

2011-11-20 Thread Daniel Greenhoe
Thank you for the color information. It just seems that there should be a color printing standard that print houses strive to follow and that someone would produce a booklet based on that standard. I saw this in a document from one print house: "Consumer quality printers have a wide margin for va

Re: [XeTeX] (OT) Re: TeX in the modern World. (goes OT) Was: Re: Whitespace in input

2011-11-20 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
IBM golf ball "Selectric"? Luxury! My university used to beat me over the head with an abacus made of stone for 25 hours a day, before sending me to do data entry with a chisel at the back end of a cave lit only by burning data-cards, while solving Eulerarian equations for fluid motion using mach

Re: [XeTeX] cmyk encoded files

2011-11-20 Thread Andy Lin
If your local Eslite doesn't have such a booklet, and they can't order one, you might want to try asking around at small print shops. They're actually fairly substantial and are along the same lines as the Pantone book that you found. However, if you're at a print shop anyway, you can just ask to s

Re: [XeTeX] cmyk encoded files

2011-11-20 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/20 Daniel Greenhoe : > Thank you for the color information. It just seems that there should > be a color printing standard that print houses strive to follow and > that someone would produce a booklet based on that standard. > > I saw this in a document from one print house: > > "Consumer q