[XeTeX] centering layout with geometry package

[Daniel Greenhoe]

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.

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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