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Re: Custom title page


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  • From: Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: Custom title page
  • Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 13:19:47 +0000
In the help files (Help -> Reference Guide -> Standard TeXmacs styles, at par 4.1.2.) you will find a general description of the mechanism for rendering titles.

As far as I understand the key macro that lays out the title, doc-data-main, is not implemented as a TeXmacs macro but as a Scheme function (here the help document might be inaccurate in suggesting that it is a TeXmacs macro); you can find it in $TEXMACS_PATH/progs/database/title-markup.scm, and I copy it here

(tm-define (doc-data-main t)
  `(document
     ,@(select t '(doc-title))
     ,@(select t '(doc-subtitle))
     ,@(with authors (select t '(doc-author))
         (if (<= (length authors) 1) authors
             (list `(doc-authors ,@authors))))
     ,@(select t '(doc-date))
     ,@(select t '(doc-misc))
     ,@(select t '(doc-inactive))))

You can place your new definition in a Scheme module that you load from your document (please ask if you do not know how to do that).

Rearranging the order of the elements is intuitive I think. Here is an example, where I place the author first and set a line between author and title (I tested it and it works):

(tm-define (doc-data-main t)
  `(document
     ,@(with authors (select t '(doc-author))
         (if (<= (length authors) 1) authors
             (list `(doc-authors ,@authors))))
     (line (point "0par" "0") (point "1par" "0"))
     ,@(select t '(doc-title))
     ,@(select t '(doc-subtitle))
     ,@(select t '(doc-date))
     ,@(select t '(doc-misc))
     ,@(select t '(doc-inactive))))

Said this, what I wrote is not authoritative at all :-) The mechanism for the layout is complex and there are many parts which I haven't grasped.

I hope that someone else can extend/complete/correct what I wrote, and that it helps to get you started.

I would say that for further info either ask here again, or if the discussion becomes quite complex maybe the forum at http://forum.texmacs.cn/ might be a good place.


G.




On 18.04.21 14:11, Pycpp wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to know how to create a custom style for the title page. The manual explains how to modify the appearance of individual elements, but I'd like to define new elements (like an illustration image) and define the global layout of the title page, i.e. the order in which the elements appear, their positions and additional decorations (for instance I'd like to draw a horizontal line between the title and the subtitle).
How can this be done?
Thank you for your answers!



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