[XeTeX] centering layout with geometry package

[Zdenek Wagner]

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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