[XeTeX] centering layout with geometry package

[Daniel Greenhoe]

I'm afraid I'm confused with regards to the zwpagelayout package. In
the geometry package, there are two basic areas:
   1. The physical page (e.g. a4 size paper)
   2. The layout area (e.g. a5 size paper) that fits somewhere on the
physical page

By default, the two areas are identical, but they can be set
differently. And all the basic parameters such as spacing for margins,
header, footers, text area height and text area width ... they all
refer to what is *inside* (not outside) the layout area.

Is this same concept available in the zwpagelayout package? Or do the
margin parameters refer to distance from the outside borders of the
layout area to the borders of the physical page?

Dan

2011/11/26 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
> 2011/11/25 Daniel Greenhoe <dgreenhoe at gmail.com>:
>> Hello Zdenek,
>>
>> 2011/11/25 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
>>> You can try zwpagelayout. ...
>>> Versions 1.3 has just been released on CTAN, ...
>>
>> I am very interested in trying this. When I looked on ctan, it said
>> that what was currently there was version 1.2. However the readme says
>> version 1.3 with a date of 2011 November 22 and the pdf documentation
>> also has a date of 2011 November 22 (but no version number). So I
>> would guess that what is currently there is version 1.3, as you
>> indicated.
>>
> It has been released just recently, maybe the catalogue is not yet
> updated. The CTAN managers update the catalogue manually, thus it may
> take some time.
>
>> Thank you!
>> Dan
>>
>> 2011/11/25 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
>>> 2011/11/25 Susan Dittmar <Susan.Dittmar at gmx.de>:
>>>> Hello Daniel,
>>>>
>>>> I had a glance at the current geometry documentation. Unfortunately, to me it
>>>> looks like what you want is not implemented.
>>>>
>>>>> > Quoting Daniel Greenhoe (dgreenhoe at gmail.com):
>>>>> >> Using the geometry package, is there any way to automatically (without
>>>>> >> using layouthoffset and layoutvoffset) to center a layout area on a
>>>>> >> physical page? The default seems for the layout to be pushed into the
>>>>> >> upper left corner of the physical page. Here is an example:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> \documentclass{book}
>>>>> >> \setlength{\parskip}{0mm}%
>>>>> >> \setlength{\parindent}{0mm}%
>>>>> >> \usepackage{geometry}
>>>>> >> \geometry{
>>>>> >>   xetex,truedimen,paper=a4paper,
>>>>> >>   centering,twoside=false,
>>>>> >>   ignoreall,
>>>>> >>   layoutheight=200mm,layoutwidth=100mm,
>>>>> >>   margin=10mm,
>>>>> >>   nomarginpar,noheadfoot,
>>>>> >>   showframe,showcrop
>>>>> >>   }
>>>>> >> \begin{document}%
>>>>> >> abc
>>>>> >> \end{document}%
>>>>
>>>> There seems to be no way of asking for a centered layout area on the
>>>> physical page. Looks like you do have to set layouthoffset and
>>>> layoutvoffset manually.
>>>>
>>>> Still my remark concerning having both "centering" and "margin=10mm" in the
>>>> options list holds true. They affect the same internal values, one
>>>> overwriting the other.
>>>>
>>> You can try zwpagelayout. I wrote it because geometry can do the
>>> things that I do not need and cannot (or could not) do what I need
>>> every day. Versions 1.3 has just been released on CTAN, it will soon
>>> appear in TeX Live. The previous versions had problems with the
>>> ifxetex package, thus it was necessary to load fontspec after
>>> awpagelayout. The problem is fixed in 1.3.
>>>
>>>> Hope that helps, at least a bit,
>>>>
>>>>        Susan
>>>>
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