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Receptari · Capítol 6 · Requadres i notes

Notes finals en pàgina pròpia, a dues columnes

Un preprocessador breu numera les notes [^1] i les reuneix sota un títol Notes, l'estil del qual les compon en pàgina pròpia, a dues columnes.

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pp. 18–19 · 4–5 de 5

  • Mostra en anglès: encara no hi ha edició en català
  • Format 156 × 234 mm
  • 1 columna
  • Libre Bodoni 10/13,8
  • Archivo Narrow
  • Besley
  • 5 pàgines
  • Nivell
  • Postext 1.9.2
  • Compost en 23 ms
  • 186 línies de codi

En poques paraules

Una petita edició d'una famosa conferència científica sobre una espelma. Ensenya a reunir les notes al final, en una pàgina pròpia a dues columnes, en lloc de fer-ho al peu de cada pàgina.

Què compondràs

La primera conferència de The Chemical History of a Candle, de Michael Faraday, en anglès, composta com una petita edició de lectura de 156 × 234 mm. S'obre sobre un camp de sutge amb una espelma encesa recolzada a la seva vora inferior, una fotografia generada amb models de difusió el negre de la qual és el del sutge, i continua en una columna justificada de Libre Bodoni. On un llibre posaria notes a peu de pàgina, uns números petits i volats, en taronja fosc, remeten a les notes, reunides en una pàgina pròpia sota una banda de sutge amb l'espelma ja apagada. Van a dues columnes en bandera, en cos de 8,2 pt i amb el número en negreta penjat al sagnat. Tres de les sis són de William Crookes, editor del text el 1861, i surten de la reimpressió del 1908; les altres tres, noves, van signades Ed. Les dues columnes acaben a la mateixa línia, i el colofó tanca la segona.

Aquesta recepta respon a

  • Com faig notes a peu de pàgina?
  • Com componc una bibliografia o un glossari (sagnat francès, cos més petit)?
  • Com escric superíndexs, subíndexs i fórmules químiques sense escriure LaTeX?

La resposta curta

script.js · línies 29–56al codi complet
// Use: buildDocument({ markdown: endnotes(markdown) }, config()), with a 'note' paragraph style.
// [^label] in the text → **^n^**, numbered by first citation; bold, so it takes bodyText.boldColor.
// The [^label]: definitions (one line each) print where the first stood, a 'note' paragraph each:
// '**n** text', never '1. text', which would open a numbered list (gotcha: digit-period-list).
function endnotes(markdown, style = 'note') {
  const notes = new Map(); // label → text
  const HOLE = '\u0000'; // marks where a definition stood: the first becomes the notes
  const text = markdown.replace(/^\[\^([^\]\s]+)\]:[ \t]*(.+)\n?/gm,
    (_, label, note) => { notes.set(label, note.trim()); return HOLE; });
  const cited = []; // labels in order of first citation
  const number = (label) => {
    if (!notes.has(label)) throw new Error(`The note [^${label}] has no definition`);
    if (!cited.includes(label)) cited.push(label);
    return cited.indexOf(label) + 1;
  };
  // Markers side by side share one superscript, [^a][^b] → **^1,2^**, never 12 raised (note 12).
  // A word joiner (U+2060, no width) opens each one: after an italic, '*Royal George*' and the
  // bold's ** would make '***', which the parser reads as a bold run, and print the asterisks.
  const marked = text.replace(/(?:\[\^[^\]\s]+\])+/g, (run) => {
    const numbers = [...run.matchAll(/\[\^([^\]\s]+)\]/g)].map(([, label]) => number(label));
    return `⁠**^${numbers.join(',')}^**`;
  });
  const unused = [...notes.keys()].filter((label) => !cited.includes(label));
  if (unused.length) console.warn(`Notes never cited: ${unused.join(', ')}`);
  const entries = cited.map((label, i) => `**${i + 1}** ${notes.get(label)}`);
  const section = `:::paragraphs{style="${style}"}\n${entries.join('\n\n')}\n:::\n`;
  return marked.replace(HOLE, () => section).replaceAll(HOLE, ''); // () =>: '$&' stays text
}

Ingredients

Tipografia
Libre Bodoni, Besley, Archivo Narrow (SIL OFL 1.1)
Recursos
  • candle-640.jpg
  • snuffed-600.jpg
  • The lit candle on the lecture’s opener, a photograph (Generated With Diffusion Models, original)
  • The snuffed candle on the notes’ band, a photograph (Generated With Diffusion Models, original)
  • Figure 1, the flame as seen and in section, drawn in code in the page’s palette (Ignacio Ferro, CC BY 4.0)

Elaboració

#1 · Converteix les notes a peu de pàgina en notes finals abans de compondre

El preprocessador és la resposta curta de més amunt. Postext compon per si mateix les notes [^1] (notes a peu de pàgina): al peu de la columna que les cita o, amb placement: 'chapterEnd', darrere de l'últim bloc del capítol. En tots dos casos es queden a la columna del capítol, amb la lletra del text i sota un filet curt. Aquesta edició vol per a les notes un títol, una banda i una pàgina a dues columnes, i això un estil de títol només ho dona a un títol escrit al Markdown. Per això el pen reescriu el Markdown abans de passar-lo a buildDocument, i el motor no veu mai una crida [^1]. Numera les crides per l'ordre en què el text les cita per primera vegada i col·loca totes les definicions, en aquest ordre, on hi ha la primera, sota ## Notes. Cada nota comença per **1**, perquè 1. obriria una llista numerada. Un unidor de paraules (U+2060) obre cada crida; sense ell, el ** de la crida que segueix *Royal George* s'ajuntaria amb l'asterisc que tanca la cursiva en un ***, i els asteriscs sortirien impresos.

#2 · Reserva la negreta per a les crides

script.js · línies 60–61al codi complet
const markers = { boldColor: col('ember'), // **^n^**: a superscript at 58 % of the text size
  referenceBold: false }; // [Fig. 1] follows the bold colour, set roman

El preprocessador escriu cada crida com a **^n^**. Els circumflexos posen el número al 58 % del cos del text, elevat un terç d'aquest cos (format en línia), i la negreta li dona el color de bodyText.boldColor, que aquí és lliure perquè Faraday no fa servir negretes. Una xifra de 5,8 pt necessita un contrast de 4,5:1 sobre el paper, i el taronja de la flama només arriba a 2,6:1; per això les crides van en el de la brasa, més fosc. La remissió [Fig. 1] de la pàgina 17 surt del mateix color i en rodona, perquè referenceColor hereta el color de la negreta i referenceBold: false li treu la negreta.

#3 · Compon les notes en cos menor, amb el número penjat

script.js · línies 65–79al codi complet
const NOTE = 8.2; // pt: the notes' size, about four fifths of the text
// The hang is a bold number and an en space, measured in the notes' face once the fonts are in:
// a bold 5 matches 2, 3 and 6 within 0.02 em (the 4 is 0.05 em wider, the 1 0.14 em narrower).
function hang(label = '5') { // from ten notes on, pass the widest label: hang('10')
  const ctx = new OffscreenCanvas(1, 1).getContext('2d');
  const width = (w, s) => { ctx.font = `${w} 100px "${TEXT}"`; return ctx.measureText(s).width; };
  return em((width(700, label) + width(400, ' ')) / 100);
}
// Ragged, as justifying would stretch the en space (gotcha: ragged-no-hyphenation).
const noteStyles = () => [{ id: 'note', fontSize: pt(NOTE), lineHeight: pt(NOTE * 1.3),
  textAlign: 'left', hangingIndent: hang() },
  // 22 pt above the colophon is copy-fitted: its last line and the first column's share a line.
  { id: 'colophon', fontFamily: LABEL, fontSize: pt(7), lineHeight: pt(9.2), color: col('muted'),
    textAlign: 'left', firstLineIndent: pt(0), marginTop: pt(22) },
];

Les notes van a 8,2 pt sobre 10,7 pt, uns quatre cinquens del cos del text. El hangingIndent del seu estil de paràgraf es mesura a la font, un cop carregada: un 5 en negreta i un espai de mig quadratí sumen 1,12 em en Libre Bodoni, així que la primera paraula de cada nota queda alineada amb les línies següents (estils de paràgraf). Amb el número fora, al sagnat francès, les notes no necessiten espai entre elles. Van en bandera perquè la justificació estiraria aquest espai, i una columna justificada de 55 mm a 8,2 pt quedaria amb massa blanc entre paraules. Les titlles marquen els subíndexs igual que els circumflexos marquen els superíndexs, com a C~25~H~52~ a la nota 4 i H~2~O a la nota 5.

#4 · Dona a les notes una pàgina a dues columnes

script.js · línies 116–129al codi complet
const BAND = 82; // mm from the trim's top: level with the foot of Figure 1 across the spread
// The band sets the reserve too, but the first grid line clear of it lies 3 mm under the soot:
const BAND_GAP = 5; // mm more of minHeight moves the notes down a line
const notesSection = { id: 'notes', // an opener page: the drop folio, no running heads
  breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'any' }, span: 'page', // the next page, either side
  layout: { layoutType: 'double', gutterWidth: mm(6) }, // two columns of about 40 characters
  advancedDesign: { enabled: true, minHeight: mm(BAND - TOP + BAND_GAP), slot: { elements: [
    soot(BAND), art('snuffed', 32, 64, BAND, 12), series,
    text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', LABEL, 9.5, 'flame', at('container', 'top-left', 0, 16),
      caps(9.5)),
    text('title', '{titleText}', DISPLAY, 52, 'wax', below('kicker', 0.5, 80), display),
    text('intro', '{attr.intro}', LABEL, 8.4, 'rule', below('title', 2.5, 92),
      { lineHeight: 1.3 }),
  ] } } };

El títol ## Notes {style="notes" …} obre una secció les pàgines de la qual prenen la disposició i el disseny de l'estil. parity: 'any' la comença a la pàgina següent, sigui parella o senar, i span: 'page' estén la banda sobre les dues columnes, de manera que arriba al tall i la segona columna comença a sota (estils d'encapçalament). La banda fixa la reserva, però la primera línia de la retícula de base lliure d'ella queda només 3 mm per sota del sutge; amb els 5 mm que BAND_GAP suma a minHeight, les notes comencen una línia més avall. El filet de columna es declara al layout del document perquè la 1.4.1 no dibuixa el columnRule d'un estil de títol. L'equilibrat de columnes, actiu per defecte, talla l'última pàgina perquè les dues columnes acabin a la mateixa línia (equilibrat de columnes).

#5 · Obre la conferència sobre un camp de sutge

script.js · línies 101–112al codi complet
const FIELD = 112; // mm from the trim's top
// The field reaches below the heading, so it sets the reserve (gotcha: opener-reserves-anchored);
// the H1's default bottom margin (0.5 em of 18 pt) rides on it: the text starts a grid line lower.
const opener = { enabled: true,
  slot: { elements: [soot(FIELD), art('candle', 40, 100, FIELD, 10), series,
    text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', LABEL, 9.5, 'flame', below('series', 17, 60), caps(9.5)),
    text('title', '{titleText}', DISPLAY, 48, 'wax', below('kicker', 1.5, 96), display),
    // 86 mm breaks the subtitle after a dash: no-break spaces do not hold (gotcha: nbsp-breaks)
    text('subtitle', '{attr.subtitle}', DISPLAY, 11.5, 'rule', below('title', 3.5, 86),
      { fontWeight: 500, italic: true, lineHeight: 1.3 }),
    text('byline', '{attr.byline}', LABEL, 7.6, 'rule', below('subtitle', 7, 84), caps(7.6)),
  ] } };

El camp és una caixa ancorada a la pàgina, i l'espelma, un element d'imatge amb un JPEG, es recolza a la seva vora inferior. El primer nivell de títol porta span: 'page' tot i que la conferència va a una sola columna: sense això, la 1.4.1 retalla el disseny al capdamunt de la columna en lloc de pintar-lo des del tall. L'avanttítol, el subtítol i la signatura surten de la línia del títol, # A Candle {kicker="Lecture I" subtitle="…" byline="…"}, així que la conferència II no demanaria codi nou. Com que el camp baixa més que el títol, és ell qui fixa la reserva. S'hi suma el marge inferior per defecte del títol, de 0,5 em, i el text comença una línia de la retícula de base per sota de la primera lliure de sutge. El subtítol fa 86 mm d'amplada perquè es parteixi després d'un guió mitjà, perquè al text d'un disseny un espai de no separació no impedeix el tall.

#6 · Fes servir la flama sobre el sutge i la brasa sobre el paper

script.js · línies 13–23al codi complet
const palette = {
  ink: '#1f1c19', paper: '#fffdf8', // text and the soot of the fields; a warm white page
  flame: '#e08a1e', ember: '#a9560c', // kickers on soot (6:1); markers and numbers (5.1:1)
  wax: '#f6efe1', rule: '#d4c6ad', // type on soot; hairlines and small type on soot (10:1)
  muted: '#6d6356', blue: '#4f7cae', // running heads, colophon (5.8:1); a flame's blue foot
};
const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id], model: 'hex', paletteId: id });
// The engine's defaults link to 'main-color': point it at the ember, so nothing prints blue.
// col() writes the hex too: design slots do not read the palette (gotcha: palette-skips-designs).
const colorPalette = Object.entries({ ...palette, 'main-color': palette.ember })
  .map(([id, hex]) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } }));

El taronja de la flama dona un contrast de 6:1 sobre el sutge, però només de 2,6:1 sobre el paper. Per això es reserva per als avanttítols de les bandes fosques i per a la figura 1, i tot el que és petit i va en taronja sobre el paper (crides, números de nota, l'etiqueta del peu de figura) fa servir la brasa, més fosca, que dona 5,1:1. main-color apunta a la brasa, així que qualsevol valor per defecte que la configuració no repeteixi segueix el disseny en lloc de sortir en blau.

La recepta completa

Sandbox
// ═══ Postext Cookbook · Nº 020 · Endnotes on a page of their own, in two columns ═════
// https://postext.dev/en/cookbook/endnotes-instead-of-footnotes
// Code: MIT · Text: Faraday, ed. Crookes (PD) · Notes, figure: CC BY 4.0 · Photos: diffusion models
// Fonts: Libre Bodoni, Besley, Archivo Narrow (SIL OFL 1.1) · Needs postext ≥ 1.4.1
import { buildDocument, renderPageToCanvas, clearMeasurementCache, registerResourceImage }
  from 'https://esm.sh/postext';

const LANG = 'en'; // @lang: the language of the sample document ('en' | 'es')
const RECIPE = 'endnotes-instead-of-footnotes';

// ─── 1 · Design ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// #region palette: soot, wax and a flame; the ember is the flame dark enough for small type
const palette = {
  ink: '#1f1c19', paper: '#fffdf8', // text and the soot of the fields; a warm white page
  flame: '#e08a1e', ember: '#a9560c', // kickers on soot (6:1); markers and numbers (5.1:1)
  wax: '#f6efe1', rule: '#d4c6ad', // type on soot; hairlines and small type on soot (10:1)
  muted: '#6d6356', blue: '#4f7cae', // running heads, colophon (5.8:1); a flame's blue foot
};
const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id], model: 'hex', paletteId: id });
// The engine's defaults link to 'main-color': point it at the ember, so nothing prints blue.
// col() writes the hex too: design slots do not read the palette (gotcha: palette-skips-designs).
const colorPalette = Object.entries({ ...palette, 'main-color': palette.ember })
  .map(([id, hex]) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } }));
// #endregion
const TEXT = 'Libre Bodoni', DISPLAY = 'Besley', LABEL = 'Archivo Narrow'; // text; titles; labels
const TOP = 22, INNER = 18, OUTER = 22; // mm: margins, and a 116 mm measure of 74 characters

// #region answer: Markdown footnotes become raised markers and a Notes section
// Use: buildDocument({ markdown: endnotes(markdown) }, config()), with a 'note' paragraph style.
// [^label] in the text → **^n^**, numbered by first citation; bold, so it takes bodyText.boldColor.
// The [^label]: definitions (one line each) print where the first stood, a 'note' paragraph each:
// '**n** text', never '1. text', which would open a numbered list (gotcha: digit-period-list).
function endnotes(markdown, style = 'note') {
  const notes = new Map(); // label → text
  const HOLE = '\u0000'; // marks where a definition stood: the first becomes the notes
  const text = markdown.replace(/^\[\^([^\]\s]+)\]:[ \t]*(.+)\n?/gm,
    (_, label, note) => { notes.set(label, note.trim()); return HOLE; });
  const cited = []; // labels in order of first citation
  const number = (label) => {
    if (!notes.has(label)) throw new Error(`The note [^${label}] has no definition`);
    if (!cited.includes(label)) cited.push(label);
    return cited.indexOf(label) + 1;
  };
  // Markers side by side share one superscript, [^a][^b] → **^1,2^**, never 12 raised (note 12).
  // A word joiner (U+2060, no width) opens each one: after an italic, '*Royal George*' and the
  // bold's ** would make '***', which the parser reads as a bold run, and print the asterisks.
  const marked = text.replace(/(?:\[\^[^\]\s]+\])+/g, (run) => {
    const numbers = [...run.matchAll(/\[\^([^\]\s]+)\]/g)].map(([, label]) => number(label));
    return `⁠**^${numbers.join(',')}^**`;
  });
  const unused = [...notes.keys()].filter((label) => !cited.includes(label));
  if (unused.length) console.warn(`Notes never cited: ${unused.join(', ')}`);
  const entries = cited.map((label, i) => `**${i + 1}** ${notes.get(label)}`);
  const section = `:::paragraphs{style="${style}"}\n${entries.join('\n\n')}\n:::\n`;
  return marked.replace(HOLE, () => section).replaceAll(HOLE, ''); // () =>: '$&' stays text
}
// #endregion

// #region markers: the lecture has no bold of its own, so the bold colour is free for the markers
const markers = { boldColor: col('ember'), // **^n^**: a superscript at 58 % of the text size
  referenceBold: false }; // [Fig. 1] follows the bold colour, set roman
// #endregion

// #region notes: 8.2 pt, set ragged, each number hanging in the indent
const NOTE = 8.2; // pt: the notes' size, about four fifths of the text
// The hang is a bold number and an en space, measured in the notes' face once the fonts are in:
// a bold 5 matches 2, 3 and 6 within 0.02 em (the 4 is 0.05 em wider, the 1 0.14 em narrower).
function hang(label = '5') { // from ten notes on, pass the widest label: hang('10')
  const ctx = new OffscreenCanvas(1, 1).getContext('2d');
  const width = (w, s) => { ctx.font = `${w} 100px "${TEXT}"`; return ctx.measureText(s).width; };
  return em((width(700, label) + width(400, ' ')) / 100);
}
// Ragged, as justifying would stretch the en space (gotcha: ragged-no-hyphenation).
const noteStyles = () => [{ id: 'note', fontSize: pt(NOTE), lineHeight: pt(NOTE * 1.3),
  textAlign: 'left', hangingIndent: hang() },
  // 22 pt above the colophon is copy-fitted: its last line and the first column's share a line.
  { id: 'colophon', fontFamily: LABEL, fontSize: pt(7), lineHeight: pt(9.2), color: col('muted'),
    textAlign: 'left', firstLineIndent: pt(0), marginTop: pt(22) },
];
// #endregion

// Design text wraps (it ends in an ellipsis by default: gotcha overflow-ellipsis-default).
const text = (id, content, family, size, color, placement, extra) => ({ kind: 'text', id,
  content, fontFamily: family, fontSize: pt(size), color: col(color), placement,
  overflow: 'wrap', align: 'left', ...extra });
const caps = (s) => ({ fontWeight: 600, textTransform: 'uppercase', letterSpacing: pt(s * 0.18) });
const display = { fontWeight: 800, lineHeight: 1 }; // the titles, set solid
const at = (to, edge, x, y, width) => ({ anchor: { to, edge }, offset: { x: mm(x), y: mm(y) },
  ...(width && { size: { width: mm(width) } }) });
const below = (id, y, width) => at(`#${id}`, 'below', 0, y, width);
// A field of soot from the trim's top, edge to edge, and a candle standing on its lower edge.
const soot = (height) => ({ kind: 'box', id: 'soot', style: { backgroundColor: col('ink') },
  placement: { ...at('page', 'top-left', 0, 0), size: { width: 'fill', height: mm(height) } } });
const art = (id, width, height, foot, x) => ({ kind: 'image', id, resourceId: id,
  placement: at('page', 'top-right', -x, foot - height, width) });

const series = text('series', '{title}', LABEL, 7.6, 'rule', at('container', 'top-left', 0, 4),
  caps(7.6)); // the book's title, from the frontmatter, heads both bands

// #region opener: the lecture opens on a field of soot with a photo of a lit candle
const FIELD = 112; // mm from the trim's top
// The field reaches below the heading, so it sets the reserve (gotcha: opener-reserves-anchored);
// the H1's default bottom margin (0.5 em of 18 pt) rides on it: the text starts a grid line lower.
const opener = { enabled: true,
  slot: { elements: [soot(FIELD), art('candle', 40, 100, FIELD, 10), series,
    text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', LABEL, 9.5, 'flame', below('series', 17, 60), caps(9.5)),
    text('title', '{titleText}', DISPLAY, 48, 'wax', below('kicker', 1.5, 96), display),
    // 86 mm breaks the subtitle after a dash: no-break spaces do not hold (gotcha: nbsp-breaks)
    text('subtitle', '{attr.subtitle}', DISPLAY, 11.5, 'rule', below('title', 3.5, 86),
      { fontWeight: 500, italic: true, lineHeight: 1.3 }),
    text('byline', '{attr.byline}', LABEL, 7.6, 'rule', below('subtitle', 7, 84), caps(7.6)),
  ] } };
// #endregion

// #region section: the notes open a page of their own, in two columns under a band of soot
const BAND = 82; // mm from the trim's top: level with the foot of Figure 1 across the spread
// The band sets the reserve too, but the first grid line clear of it lies 3 mm under the soot:
const BAND_GAP = 5; // mm more of minHeight moves the notes down a line
const notesSection = { id: 'notes', // an opener page: the drop folio, no running heads
  breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'any' }, span: 'page', // the next page, either side
  layout: { layoutType: 'double', gutterWidth: mm(6) }, // two columns of about 40 characters
  advancedDesign: { enabled: true, minHeight: mm(BAND - TOP + BAND_GAP), slot: { elements: [
    soot(BAND), art('snuffed', 32, 64, BAND, 12), series,
    text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', LABEL, 9.5, 'flame', at('container', 'top-left', 0, 16),
      caps(9.5)),
    text('title', '{titleText}', DISPLAY, 52, 'wax', below('kicker', 0.5, 80), display),
    text('intro', '{attr.intro}', LABEL, 8.4, 'rule', below('title', 2.5, 92),
      { lineHeight: 1.3 }),
  ] } } };
// #endregion

const head = (id, content, parity, edge, x, extra) => ({ kind: 'text', id, content, parity,
  pages: 'body', fontFamily: LABEL, fontSize: pt(7.6), color: col('muted'), ...caps(7.6),
  placement: at('page', edge, x, 13), ...extra });
const folio = { fontFamily: DISPLAY, fontSize: pt(8.6), fontWeight: 700, color: col('ink'),
  letterSpacing: pt(0) }; // untracked figures
const header = { elements: [ // the book on the verso, the lecture on the recto, folios outside
  head('verso-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'even', 'top-left', OUTER, folio),
  head('verso-title', '{title}', 'even', 'top-left', OUTER + 9),
  head('recto-title', '{attr.kicker} · {chapterTitle}', 'odd', 'top-right', -(OUTER + 9)),
  head('recto-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'odd', 'top-right', -OUTER, folio),
] };
const dropFolio = text('drop', '{pageNumber}', DISPLAY, 8.6, 'ink', at('page', 'bottom', 0, -12),
  { fontWeight: 700, align: 'center', pages: 'opener' }); // the lecture's and the notes' openers

const config = () => ({ // a factory, never a shared object (gotcha: config-cache-identity)
  colorPalette, header, footer: { elements: [dropFolio] },
  page: { width: mm(156), height: mm(234), dpi: 150, // a trade octavo
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Mostra en Markdown · 36 línies · content.en.mdtitle: "The Chemical History of a Candle" author: "Michael Faraday" --- # A Candle {kicker="Lecture I" subtitle="The Flame – Its Sources – Structure – Mobility – Brightness" byline="Michael Faraday · Christmas 1860"} I purpose, in return for the honour you do us by coming to see what are our proceedings here, to bring before you, in the course of these lectures, the Chemical History of a Candle. I have taken this subject on a former occasion;[^christmas] and were it left to my own will, I should prefer to repeat it almost every year—so abundant is the interest that attaches itself to the subject, so wonderful are the varieties of outlet which it offers into the various departments of philosophy. There is not a law under which any part of this universe is governed which does not come into play, and is touched upon in these phenomena. There is no better, there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy, than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle. I trust, therefore, I shall not disappoint you in choosing this for my subject rather than any newer topic, which could not be better, were it even so good. But we must speak of candles as they are in commerce. Here are a couple of candles commonly called dips. They are made of lengths of cotton cut off, hung up by a loop, dipped into melted tallow, taken out again and cooled, then re-dipped until there is an accumulation of tallow round the cotton. In order that you may have an idea of the various characters of these candles, you see these which I hold in my hand—they are very small, and very curious. They are, or were, the candles used by the miners in coal mines. In olden times the miner had to find his own candles; and it was supposed that a small candle would not so soon set fire to the fire-damp in the coal mines as a large one; and for that reason, as well as for economy’s sake, he had candles made of this sort—20, 30, 40, or 60 to the pound. They have been replaced since then by the steel-mill, and then by the Davy-lamp, and other safety-lamps of various kinds. I have here a candle that was taken out of the *Royal George*[^george], it is said, by Colonel Pasley. It has been sunk in the sea for many years, subject to the action of salt water. It shews you how well candles may be preserved; for though it is cracked about and broken a good deal, yet, when lighted, it goes on burning regularly, and the tallow resumes its natural condition as soon as it is fused. Mr. Field, of Lambeth, has supplied me abundantly with beautiful illustrations of the candle and its materials. I shall therefore now refer to them. And, first, there is the suet—the fat of the ox—Russian tallow, I believe, employed in the manufacture of these dips, which Gay Lussac, or some one who entrusted him with his knowledge, converted into that beautiful substance, stearin, which you see lying beside it. A candle, you know, is not now a greasy thing like an ordinary tallow candle, but a clean thing, and you may almost scrape off and pulverise the drops which fall from it without soiling anything. This is the process he adopted:[^stearin]—The fat or tallow is first boiled with quick-lime, and made into a soap, and then the soap is decomposed by sulphuric acid, which takes away the lime, and leaves the fat re-arranged as stearic acid, whilst a quantity of glycerin is produced at the same time. Glycerin—absolutely a sugar, or a substance similar to sugar—comes out of the tallow in this chemical change. The oil is then pressed out of it; and you see here this series of pressed cakes, shewing how beautifully the impurities are carried out by the oily part as the pressure goes on increasing, and at last you have left that substance which is melted, and cast into candles as here represented. The candle I have in my hand is a stearin candle, made of stearin from tallow in the way I have told you. Then here is a sperm candle, which comes from the purified oil of the spermaceti whale. Here also are yellow bees-wax and refined bees-wax, from which candles are made. Here, too, is that curious substance called paraffin, and some paraffin candles made of paraffin obtained from the bogs of Ireland.[^paraffin] I have here also a substance brought from Japan, since we have forced an entrance into that out-of-the-way place—a sort of wax which a kind friend has sent me, and which forms a new material for the manufacture of candles. There is another condition which you must learn as regards the candle, without which you would not be able fully to understand the philosophy of it, and that is the vaporous condition of the fuel. In order that you may understand that, let me shew you a very pretty, but very common-place experiment. If you blow a candle out cleverly, you will see the vapour rise from it. You have, I know, often smelt the vapour of a blown-out candle—and a very bad smell it is; but if you blow it out cleverly, you will be able to see the vapour into which this solid matter is transformed. I will blow out one of these candles in such a way as not to disturb the air around it, by the continuing action of my breath; and now, if I hold a lighted taper two or three inches from the wick, you will observe a train of fire going through the air till it reaches the candle. I am obliged to be quick and ready, because, if I allow the vapour time to cool, it becomes condensed into a liquid or solid, or the stream of combustible matter gets disturbed. Now, as to the shape or form of the flame. It concerns us much to know about the condition which the matter of the candle finally assumes at the top of the wick—where you have such beauty and brightness as nothing but combustion or flame can produce.[^combustion] You have the glittering beauty of gold and silver, and the still higher lustre of jewels, like the ruby and diamond; but none of these rival the brilliancy and beauty of flame. What diamond can shine like flame? It owes its lustre at night-time to the very flame shining upon it. The flame shines in darkness, but the light which the diamond has is as nothing until the flame shine upon it, when it is brilliant again. The candle alone shines by itself, and for itself, or for those who have arranged the materials. Now, let us look a little at the form of the flame as you see it under the glass shade. It is steady and equal; and its general form is that which is represented in the diagram [:ref{id="flame"}], varying with atmospheric disturbances, and also varying according to the size of the candle. It is a bright oblong—brighter at the top than towards the bottom—with the wick in the middle, and besides the wick in the middle, certain darker parts towards the bottom, where the ignition is not so perfect as in the part above. I can give you here a little further illustration, for the purpose of shewing you how flame goes up or down; according to the current. I have here a flame—it is not a candle-flame—but you can, no doubt, by this time, generalise enough to be able to compare one thing with another. What I am about to do is to change the ascending current that takes the flame upwards into a descending current. This I can easily do by the little apparatus you see before me. The flame, as I have said, is not a candle flame, but it is produced by alcohol, so that it shall not smoke too much. I will also colour the flame with another substance,[^copper] so that you may trace its course; for with the spirit alone you could hardly see well enough to have the opportunity of tracing its direction. By lighting this spirit-of-wine, we have then a flame produced; and you observe that when held in the air, it naturally goes upwards. You understand now easily enough why flames go up under ordinary circumstances—it is because of the draught of air by which the combustion is formed. But now, by blowing the flame down, you see I am enabled to make it go downwards into this little chimney—the direction of the current being changed. Before we have concluded this course of lectures, we shall shew you a lamp in which the flame goes up and the smoke goes down, or the flame goes down and the smoke goes up. You see, then, that we have the power in this way of varying the flame in different directions. It is too bad that we have not got further; but we must not, under any circumstances, keep you beyond your time. It will be a lesson to me in future to hold you more strictly to the philosophy of the thing, than to take up your time so much with these illustrations. ## Notes {style="notes" kicker="Lecture I" intro="The raised numbers in the lecture point here. Notes signed by the editor are new to this edition; the rest are William Crookes’s, from the impression of 1908."} [^christmas]: Faraday first gave this course of six lectures at Christmas 1848. The text printed here is that of his second course, given at the Royal Institution in 1860–61 and published in 1861, edited by William Crookes. *Ed.* [^george]: The *Royal George* sunk at Spithead on the 29th of August, 1782. Colonel Pasley commenced operations for the removal of the wreck by the explosion of gunpowder, in August, 1839. The candle which Professor Faraday exhibited must therefore have been exposed to the action of salt water for upwards of fifty-seven years. [^stearin]: The fat or tallow consists of a chemical combination of fatty acids with glycerine. The lime unites with the palmitic, oleic, and stearic acids, and separates the glycerine. After washing, the insoluble lime soap is decomposed with hot dilute sulphuric acid. The melted fatty acids thus rise as an oil to the surface, when they are decanted. They are again washed and cast into thin plates, which, when cold, are placed between layers of cocoa-nut matting, and submitted to intense hydraulic pressure. In this way the soft oleic acid is squeezed out, whilst the hard palmitic and stearic acids remain. These are further purified by pressure at a higher temperature, and washing in warm dilute sulphuric acid, when they are ready to be made into candles. These acids are harder and whiter than the fats from which they were obtained, whilst at the same time they are cleaner and more combustible. [^paraffin]: Paraffin wax is a mixture of hydrocarbons with 20 to 40 carbon atoms, such as C~25~H~52~. Karl von Reichenbach first isolated it from wood tar in 1830; by 1860 it was distilled for candles from shale, peat and coal. *Ed.* [^combustion]: As it burns, the vapour of the wax combines with oxygen from the air and leaves the flame as water, H~2~O, and carbon dioxide, CO~2~, which Faraday calls “carbonic acid”. He finds the water in Lecture II and the carbonic acid in Lecture V. *Ed.* [^copper]: The alcohol had chloride of copper dissolved in it: this produces a beautiful green flame. :::paragraphs{style="colophon"} Set in Libre Bodoni, Besley and Archivo Narrow, all three under the SIL Open Font License. The text is Michael Faraday’s, as edited by William Crookes in 1861, from the impression of 1908 (Project Gutenberg eBook 14474), abridged; the figure and the editor’s notes are CC BY 4.0. :::
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Uncited: design only. const photo = (id, bitmap) => ({ id, typeId: 'figure', kind: 'bitmap', bitmap, createdAt: 0, updatedAt: 0 }); const resources = [ photo('candle', { fileId: 'candle-640.jpg', format: 'jpeg', width: 640, height: 1600 }), photo('snuffed', { fileId: 'snuffed-600.jpg', format: 'jpeg', width: 600, height: 1200 }), // Cited on page 17, the 'top' figure heads page 18 (gotcha: top-float-next-page). svgResource('flame', 2320, 1200, { placement: { position: 'top' }, caption: 'A candle flame as ' + 'it looks under a glass shade (left) and in section (right): the dark core of wax vapour ' + 'round the wick, the blue foot where the air first meets it, the bright zone where soot ' + 'glows, and the faint mantle, the hottest part. Heated air rises round it and draws it up.', altText: 'A candle flame, whole and in section, with arrows of rising air' }), ]; // #region art: Figure 1, the flame as seen and in section, in the palette // No words in the drawings: an SVG drawn as an image cannot use web fonts // (gotcha: svg-no-webfonts). Arrowheads are paths (gotcha: svg-no-marker-filters). const n = (v) => +v.toFixed(2); const svg = (w, h, body) => `<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="${w * 10}" ` + `height="${h * 10}" viewBox="0 0 ${w} ${h}">${body}</svg>`; const shape = (d, fill, extra = '') => `<path d="${d}" fill="${fill}"${extra}/>`; const line = (d, stroke, width, extra = '') => `<path d="${d}" fill="none" stroke="${stroke}" ` + `stroke-width="${width}" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"${extra}/>`; const dot = (x, y, r, fill, extra = '') => `<circle cx="${n(x)}" cy="${n(y)}" r="${n(r)}" ` + `fill="${fill}"${extra}/>`; const op = (v) => ` fill-opacity="${v}"`; // Light round a flame: a radial gradient from the flame's colour to nothing. const halo = (x, y, r, strength) => `<radialGradient id="h${x}" cx="0.5" cy="0.5" r="0.5">` + `<stop offset="0" stop-color="${palette.flame}" stop-opacity="${strength}"/>` + `<stop offset="0.45" stop-color="${palette.flame}" stop-opacity="${strength * 0.35}"/>` + `<stop offset="1" stop-color="${palette.flame}" stop-opacity="0"/></radialGradient>` + dot(x, y, r, `url(#h${x})`); // A flame from its foot (x, base) up to its tip: round below, drawn out above. function tongue(x, base, top, half) { const h = base - top; return `M${n(x)} ${n(top)}C${n(x + half * 0.3)} ${n(top + h * 0.28)} ${n(x + half)} ` + `${n(top + h * 0.5)} ${n(x + half)} ${n(top + h * 0.74)}` + `C${n(x + half)} ${n(base - h * 0.04)} ` + `${n(x + half * 0.5)} ${n(base)} ${n(x)} ${n(base)}C${n(x - half * 0.5)} ${n(base)} ` + `${n(x - half)} ${n(base - h * 0.04)} ${n(x - half)} ${n(top + h * 0.74)}C${n(x - half)} ` + `${n(top + h * 0.5)} ${n(x - half * 0.3)} ${n(top + h * 0.28)} ${n(x)} ${n(top)}Z`; } // The flame's zones: mantle, bright body, dark core round the wick, blue foot. function flameAt(x, base, top, half, { lit = true, section = false } = {}) { const h = base - top; const P = palette; let out = shape(tongue(x, base + 2, top - h * 0.08, half * 1.22), P.flame, section ? `${op(0.16)} stroke="${P.flame}" stroke-width="0.8"` : op(0.22)); out += shape(tongue(x, base, top, half), P.flame); if (!section) { // as seen: brighter above, darker below out += shape(tongue(x, base - h * 0.22, top + h * 0.1, half * 0.72), P.wax, op(0.55)) + shape(tongue(x, base - h * 0.38, top + h * 0.2, half * 0.42), P.wax, op(0.75)); } out += shape(tongue(x, base, base - h * (section ? 0.5 : 0.36), half * (section ? 0.5 : 0.36)), section ? P.ink : P.ember, op(section ? 0.72 : 0.7)); out += shape(`M${n(x - half * 0.95)} ${n(base - h * 0.1)}Q${n(x)} ${n(base + h * 0.06)} ` + `${n(x + half * 0.95)} ${n(base - h * 0.1)}Q${n(x + half * 0.7)} ${n(base + h * 0.03)} ` + `${n(x)} ${n(base + h * 0.03)}Q${n(x - half * 0.7)} ${n(base + h * 0.03)} ` + `${n(x - half * 0.95)} ${n(base - h * 0.1)}Z`, P.blue, op(lit ? 0.9 : 0)); return out; } // A pillar of wax from y down past the art's foot, with the cup of melted wax on top. function pillar(x, y, half, foot, drip = 0) { const P = palette; const shade = `<linearGradient id="w${x}" x1="0" x2="1" y1="0" y2="0">` // rounded by light + `<stop offset="0" stop-color="${P.rule}"/><stop offset="0.3" stop-color="${P.wax}"/>` + `<stop offset="0.62" stop-color="${P.wax}"/><stop offset="1" stop-color="${P.rule}"/>` + '</linearGradient>'; return shade + `<rect x="${n(x - half)}" y="${n(y)}" width="${n(half * 2)}" ` + `height="${n(foot - y)}" fill="url(#w${x})"/>` + (drip ? shape(`M${n(x - half * 0.78)} ${n(y)}h${n(half * 0.34)}v${n(drip)}a${n(half * 0.17)} ` + `${n(half * 0.17)} 0 0 1-${n(half * 0.34)} 0Z`, P.wax) : '') + `<ellipse cx="${n(x)}" cy="${n(y)}" rx="${n(half)}" ry="${n(half * 0.2)}" ` + `fill="${P.wax}"/>` + `<ellipse cx="${n(x)}" cy="${n(y + half * 0.02)}" rx="${n(half * 0.76)}" ` + `ry="${n(half * 0.13)}" fill="${P.rule}"${op(0.8)}/>`; // the cup of melted wax } const wick = (x, y, len, lean = 2) => line(`M${n(x)} ${n(y)}q${n(lean * 0.3)} ${n(-len * 0.5)} ` + `${n(lean)} ${n(-len)}`, palette.ink, 1.6); // Rising air: a curve from beside the foot to above the tip, and a path arrowhead. function draught(x0, y0, x1, y1, color, width, opacity) { const head = shape(`M${n(x1 - 2.2)} ${n(y1 + 3.2)}L${n(x1)} ${n(y1 - 0.6)}L${n(x1 + 2.2)} ` + `${n(y1 + 3.2)}Z`, color, op(opacity)); return line(`M${n(x0)} ${n(y0)}C${n(x0)} ${n((y0 + y1) / 2)} ${n(x1)} ${n(y0 - (y0 - y1) * 0.6)} ` + `${n(x1)} ${n(y1 + 2)}`, color, width, ` stroke-opacity="${opacity}"`) + head; } function flame() { // Figure 1: 116 × 60 mm, as seen and in section, on soot const P = palette; let out = `<rect width="232" height="120" rx="2" fill="${P.ink}"/>`; out += halo(70, 60, 46, 0.3) + flameAt(70, 92, 24, 11) + pillar(70, 100, 17, 120, 12) + wick(69.5, 101, 12) // then the glass shade, open below, drawn over the candle it stands round + `<path d="M47 112V17a5 5 0 0 1 5-5h36a5 5 0 0 1 5 5v95" fill="${P.wax}"${op(0.05)} ` + `stroke="${P.rule}" stroke-opacity="0.4" stroke-width="0.8"/>` + line('M52 18v88', P.wax, 1.4, ' stroke-opacity="0.18"'); for (const side of [-1, 1]) { // the air the flame heats, rising round it out += draught(160 + side * 32, 108, 160 + side * 10, 14, P.rule, 1, 0.75) + draught(160 + side * 44, 104, 160 + side * 22, 30, P.rule, 1, 0.5); } return svg(232, 120, out + flameAt(160, 92, 24, 11, { section: true }) + pillar(160, 100, 17, 120) + wick(159.5, 101, 12)); } const drawings = { flame }; // #endregion // ─── 3 · Fonts ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // Every face the design uses, loaded before the first build (gotcha: fonts-first). const FONTS = { 'Libre Bodoni': ['400', '400i', '700'], // text and notes (700: the numbers) Besley: ['500i', '700', '800'], 'Archivo Narrow': ['400', '400i', '600', '700'] }; // labels // ─── 4 · Build & show ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── const source = endnotes(markdown); // the answer, run before the engine sees the text await Promise.all([loadFonts(FONTS, source), ...resources.filter((r) => r.bitmap).map(({ bitmap: b }) => loadImage(b.fileId, asset(b.fileId))), ...Object.entries(drawings).map(([id, draw]) => loadSvg(`${id}.svg`, draw()))]); // The lecture starts on folio 15, a recto, 14 pages into the book (gotcha: parity-page1-recto). const continuation = { pageIndexOffset: 14, pageNumbering: { startAt: 15 } }; const doc = await buildWithFonts( () => buildDocument({ markdown: source, resources, continuation }, config()), source); showPages(doc, { title: 'The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture I' });
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Then the * measurement caches are cleared and the build runs again. */ async function buildWithFonts(build, text = '') { const tried = new Set(); for (let round = 0; round < 3; round++) { kitStatus('Laying out…'); await new Promise(requestAnimationFrame); // let the status paint first const result = await Promise.resolve().then(build).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; }); const wanted = { base: {}, variants: {} }; for (const { font, base } of [result].flat().flatMap(fontStringsOf)) { const { family, weight, style } = parseFont(font); const key = `${family}|${weight}|${style}`; if (tried.has(key) || hasFace(family, weight, style)) continue; tried.add(key); (wanted[base ? 'base' : 'variants'][family] ??= []).push(`${weight}${style === 'italic' ? 'i' : ''}`); } if (Object.keys(wanted.base).length) { console.warn(`[cookbook] FONTS does not list ${JSON.stringify(wanted.base)}: loading them.`); } const added = await loadFonts(wanted.base, text) + await loadFonts(wanted.variants, text, { optional: true }); if (added === 0) return result; clearMeasurementCache(); } throw new Error('The fonts did not settle after three builds.'); } /** Every font string of the layout. `base` marks a block's own face; its * bold, italic and bold-italic variants are listed whether or not used. */ function fontStringsOf(doc) { const found = new Map(); const walk = (node) => { if (!node || typeof node !== 'object') return; if (Array.isArray(node)) { node.forEach(walk); return; } for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(node)) { if (typeof value === 'string' && /fontString$/i.test(key)) { found.set(value, found.get(value) || key === 'fontString'); } else if (value && typeof value === 'object') walk(value); } }; walk(doc.pages); walk(doc.blocks); return [...found].map(([font, base]) => ({ font, base })); } /** '700 37.5px Open Sans' / 'italic 400 13px "Source Serif 4"' → { family, weight, style }. * A string with no weight ('95.8px Young Serif', from a design text) is 400. */ function parseFont(font) { const m = /^(?:(italic|oblique)\s+)?(?:small-caps\s+)?(?:(\d+|bold|normal)\s+)?[\d.]+px\s+(.+)$/.exec(font.trim()); if (!m) throw new Error(`Unexpected font string: ${font}`); const weight = m[2] === 'bold' ? 700 : !m[2] || m[2] === 'normal' ? 400 : Number(m[2]); return { family: m[3].replace(/^["']|["']$/g, ''), weight, style: m[1] ? 'italic' : 'normal' }; } /** True when a loaded FontFace covers exactly this family, weight and style * (document.fonts.check() is also true for families nobody declared). */ function hasFace(family, weight, style) { for (const face of document.fonts) { if (face.status !== 'loaded' || face.style !== style) continue; if (face.family.replace(/^["']|["']$/g, '') !== family) continue; const [low, high = low] = face.weight.split(' ').map(Number); if (weight >= low && weight <= high) return true; } return false; } /** Fontsource's id for a family: 'Source Serif 4' → 'source-serif-4'. */ function fontsourceId(family) { return family.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '-'); } /** The weights and styles a family ships ({ weights: [400, 700], styles: ['normal', 'italic'] }), or null. */ function fontsourceMeta(family) { fontsourceMeta.cache ??= new Map(); const id = fontsourceId(family); if (!fontsourceMeta.cache.has(id)) { fontsourceMeta.cache.set(id, fetch(`https://api.fontsource.org/v1/fonts/${id}`) .then((res) => (res.ok ? res.json() : null), () => null)); } return fontsourceMeta.cache.get(id); } // ─── Kit · viewer v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ─────── /** Shows the pages as facing spreads on a dark desk: the first page is a * recto on its own, then verso | recto pairs, as in a bound book. Pages * are painted when they scroll near the screen. */ function showPages(docs, { title, width = 460 } = {}) { const root = viewer(title); const pages = [docs].flat().flatMap((doc) => doc.pages.map((page) => ({ doc, page, n: (doc.pageIndexOffset ?? 0) + page.index }))); const spreads = []; let verso = null; for (const p of pages) { if (p.n % 2 === 1) { if (verso) spreads.push([verso, null]); verso = p; } else { spreads.push([verso, p]); verso = null; } } if (verso) spreads.push([verso, null]); const density = Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio || 1, 2); showPages.painter?.disconnect(); const painter = new IntersectionObserver((entries) => { for (const { isIntersecting, target } of entries) { if (!isIntersecting) continue; painter.unobserve(target); const { doc, page } = target.postext; renderPageToCanvas(page, doc, target, { scale: (width * density) / page.width }); } }, { rootMargin: '800px' }); showPages.painter = painter; root.replaceChildren(...spreads.map((pair) => { const spread = document.createElement('div'); spread.className = 'pt-spread'; for (const p of pair) { const figure = document.createElement('figure'); if (p) { const label = p.page.pageLabel || String(p.n + 1); const canvas = document.createElement('canvas'); canvas.postext = p; canvas.style.aspectRatio = `${p.page.width} / ${p.page.height}`; canvas.setAttribute('role', 'img'); canvas.setAttribute('aria-label', `Page ${label}`); const folio = document.createElement('figcaption'); folio.textContent = label; figure.append(canvas, folio); painter.observe(canvas); } else figure.className = 'pt-blank'; spread.append(figure); } return spread; })); kitStatus(`${pages.length} ${pages.length === 1 ? 'page' : 'pages'}`); document.documentElement.dataset.postext = 'ready'; return pages.length; } /** The desk, the bar and the error reporting, created once. */ function viewer(title) { if (!document.getElementById('pt-kit')) { document.head.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', `<style id="pt-kit"> :root { color-scheme: dark; } body { margin: 0; background: #0e1014; color: #b9bcc4; font: 13px/1.45 system-ui, sans-serif; } #pt-bar { position: sticky; top: 0; z-index: 1; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: center; gap: 6px 16px; padding: 10px 16px; background: rgb(14 16 20 / .92); backdrop-filter: blur(6px); border-bottom: 1px solid #23262d; } #pt-bar strong { color: #f4f1ea; font-weight: 600; } #pt-actions { display: flex; gap: 12px; margin-left: auto; } #pt-actions a, #pt-actions button { color: #d8a21a; font: inherit; background: none; border: 0; padding: 0; cursor: pointer; } #pages { display: grid; justify-items: center; gap: 48px; padding: 32px 16px 72px; } .pt-spread { display: flex; } .pt-spread figure { margin: 0; width: min(460px, 44vw); } .pt-spread canvas { display: block; width: 100%; background: #fff; box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0 / .5), 0 22px 44px -16px rgb(0 0 0 / .8); } .pt-spread figure:first-child canvas { box-shadow: inset -14px 0 14px -14px rgb(0 0 0 / .18), 0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0 / .5), 0 22px 44px -16px rgb(0 0 0 / .8); } .pt-spread figcaption { margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; font: 600 10px/1 system-ui, sans-serif; letter-spacing: .18em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #6c7079; } .pt-blank { visibility: hidden; } @media (max-width: 760px) { .pt-spread { flex-direction: column; gap: 32px; } .pt-spread figure { width: min(460px, 92vw); } .pt-blank { display: none; } } </style>`); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', '<header id="pt-bar"><strong id="pt-title"></strong><span id="pt-status" role="status"></span><span id="pt-actions"></span></header>'); document.getElementById('pt-title').textContent = document.title || 'Postext'; addEventListener('error', (event) => kitFail(event.error ?? event.message)); addEventListener('unhandledrejection', (event) => kitFail(event.reason)); } if (title) document.getElementById('pt-title').textContent = title; return document.getElementById('pages') ?? document.body.appendChild(Object.assign(document.createElement('main'), { id: 'pages' })); } function kitStatus(text) { viewer(); document.getElementById('pt-status').textContent = text; } function kitFail(error) { document.documentElement.dataset.postext = 'error'; kitStatus(`Error: ${error?.message ?? error}`); } // ─── Kit · images v1 ── recipes with pictures · postext.dev/cookbook ────────── /** Registers a photo or PNG for the canvas and keeps its bytes for the PDF. * fetch → ImageBitmap never taints the canvas (a plain cross-origin <img> would). */ async function loadImage(fileId, url) { const res = await fetch(url); if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Image not found (${res.status}): ${url}`); const bytes = new Uint8Array(await res.arrayBuffer()); registerResourceImage(fileId, await createImageBitmap(new Blob([bytes]))); (loadImage.bytes ??= new Map()).set(fileId, bytes); } /** Registers SVG markup (drawn in code, or fetched) as a vector image. */ async function loadSvg(fileId, svg) { const img = new Image(); img.src = `data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,${encodeURIComponent(svg)}`; await img.decode(); registerResourceImage(fileId, img); (loadImage.bytes ??= new Map()).set(fileId, new TextEncoder().encode(svg)); } /** renderToPdf({ resourceBytes: imageBytes }) */ function imageBytes(fileId) { return loadImage.bytes?.get(fileId); } /** renderToHtml({ resourceImageUrl: imageUrl }) */ function imageUrl(fileId) { const bytes = imageBytes(fileId); if (!bytes) return undefined; imageUrl.urls ??= new Map(); if (!imageUrl.urls.has(fileId)) { const type = /\.svg$/i.test(fileId) ? 'image/svg+xml' : /\.png$/i.test(fileId) ? 'image/png' : 'image/jpeg'; imageUrl.urls.set(fileId, URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([bytes], { type }))); } return imageUrl.urls.get(fileId); } // ─── /Kit ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

L'script.js compost funciona tal com és: enganxa'l com a script de mòdul en qualsevol pàgina o obre la recepta a CodePen. Carpeta de la recepta a GitHub ↗ (s'obre en una pestanya nova)

Variants

#Deixa que Postext compongui les notes

Treu endnotes() i el títol ## Notes, deixa una línia en blanc entre les definicions (el motor llegeix cadascuna fins a la línia en blanc següent) i afegeix footnotes: { placement: 'chapterEnd' } a la configuració. El motor numera les crides i compon les notes al final de la conferència, darrere del colofó, a la seva única columna; Notes a peu de la columna que les cita mostra com donar estil a les notes que compon el motor.

#Imprimeix les crides en tinta

Si el text fa servir la negreta per al seu propi èmfasi, posa les crides en tinta: boldColor dona el mateix color a les crides i a cada paraula en negreta.

-const markers = { boldColor: col('ember'), // **^n^**: a superscript at 58 % of the text size
+const markers = { boldColor: col('ink'), // **^n^**: a superscript at 58 % of the text size

#Deixa que les columnes de notes acabin desiguals

Sense l'equilibrat de l'última pàgina, la primera columna s'omple fins al peu abans que comenci la segona.

-  headings: { fontFamily: DISPLAY, color: col('ink'), levels: [
+  headings: { fontFamily: DISPLAY, color: col('ink'), balancing: { trailing: false }, levels: [

Errors freqüents

Error freqüent

«1998. » o «- » al començament d'un paràgraf obren una llista

Un paràgraf que comença per un número, un punt i un espai, o per un guionet i un espai, es converteix en un element de llista. Posa un unidor de paraules (U+2060) davant del número i escriu els diàlegs amb guió llarg. Escapaments i caràcters literals →

Error freqüent

En el text en bandera no hi ha partició de mots

La partició de mots només s'aplica al text justificat; el text en bandera talla entre paraules, així que una columna estreta en bandera queda molt desigual. Justifica el passatge o eixampla la mesura. Partició de mots i llengua del document →

Error freqüent

El filet de columna d'un estil de títol no es dibuixa

A postext 1.4.1, el layout d'un estil de títol passa la seva secció a dues columnes, però els renderitzadors només llegeixen el layout.columnRule del document, així que un columnRule dins de headingStyles[].layout s'ignora. Declara el filet al layout del document: només es dibuixa on una pàgina té més d'una columna, de manera que un llibre a una columna el mostra únicament a la seva secció a dues columnes. Filet de columna →

Error freqüent

Un espai de no separació continua partint la línia

A postext 1.4.1 l'algorisme de tall tracta U+00A0 com un espai normal, de manera que 0,08 %, 2,006 s o secció 2 poden quedar en dues línies. Ajunta els dos elements (0,08%) o reescriu la frase. Escapaments i caràcters literals →

Error freqüent

Un flotant 'top' no cau mai a la pàgina que el cita

Un flotant no va mai per sobre de la seva pròpia referència, així que un flotant 'top' a tota l'amplada citat a la pàgina N obre la pàgina N+1. Cita'l abans, o fes servir la posició 'auto' o 'bottom', que poden ocupar el peu de la pàgina que el cita. Col·locació de figures →

Error freqüent

Una paleta canviada no arriba als elements de disseny ni al color de les remissions

postext 1.4.1 aplica colorPalette als estils de text (cos, títols, llistes, peus, taules, requadres), però no als elements de capçaleres, peus de pàgina, obertures i portadelles, ni a bodyText.referenceColor: conserven l'hex escrit al costat del seu paletteId. Si canvies la paleta, per a una edició de pantalla fosca o per recolorejar, reescriu cada color enllaçat a partir de colorPalette abans de compondre. Paleta de color semàntica →

Error freqüent

Una obertura reserva alçada fins al seu element ancorat més baix

Una obertura de disseny avançat reserva l'alçada del seu element més baix, i també hi compten els ancorats a la pàgina o a la sang que queden per sota del títol, així que un ornament al peu de la pàgina empeny el text a la següent. Deixa aquests ornaments per sobre del títol, passa'ls a una ranura de capçalera o de peu, o fixa la reserva amb minHeight. Obertures dissenyades →

Error freqüent

Qualsevol objecte headings desactiva el salt de pàgina de l'H1

Per defecte un H1 salta a una pàgina senar (always-odd), però qualsevol objecte headings anul·la aquest valor, de manera que els capítols van seguits i span: 'page' no fa res. Torna a declarar headings.levels[0].breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity } a cada configuració. Capítols que obren en pàgina senar →

Error freqüent

El desbordament del text de disseny és 'ellipsis-end' per defecte

Un element de text de disseny que no cap en la seva amplada acaba en punts suspensius per defecte. Posa overflow: 'wrap' als títols que hagin de passar a més línies. Textos, filets i caixes als dissenys de pàgina →

Error freqüent

El text dins d'un SVG <img> no pot fer servir fonts web

Un SVG es dibuixa com a imatge, i una imatge no té accés a les fonts web de la pàgina, de manera que els seus rètols surten amb una font del sistema. Converteix el text en traçats, incrusta un subconjunt @font-face a l'SVG o porta els rètols al peu. Figures i taules com a recursos →

Error freqüent

Sense <marker> ni filtres als SVG, o passen a mapa de bits

Una figura SVG només continua sent vectorial al PDF sense <marker>, filtres ni màscares; si no, passa a mapa de bits, i els filtres molt imbricats la poden deixar en blanc a Chrome. Dibuixa les puntes de fletxa com a traçats. Figures i taules com a recursos →

Error freqüent

La pàgina 1 és senar: planifica amb números físics

La pàgina 1 queda a la dreta i la 2 és la primera pàgina parella, així que planifica els plecs amb números de pàgina físics: una obertura en pàgina parella queda davant de la senar que la segueix. Salts de pàgina i de columna →

Error freqüent

Posa entre cometes cada valor del frontmatter

YAML llegeix title: 1984 com un nombre i una data com un objecte Date, i els valors que no són cadenes s'imprimeixen buits als marcadors i deixen el PDF sense títol. Posa entre cometes cada valor: title: "1984". Metadades del document →

Error freqüent

Una configuració es desa a la memòria cau per identitat: crea un objecte nou

El motor desa a la memòria cau les configuracions resoltes segons la identitat de l'objecte, de manera que modificar el mateix objecte i tornar a compondre reutilitza el resultat anterior. Crea un objecte nou a cada composició: per això la configuració d'una recepta és una funció, config(). Pàgines en un canvas →

Error freqüent

Carrega totes les fonts abans de compondre

La composició mesura el text amb les fonts que el navegador ha carregat i en desa les amplades, així que una font que arriba després de la primera composició deixa talls de línia erronis i un PDF que ja no coincideix amb la pantalla. Carrega abans tots els pesos i estils, i crida clearMeasurementCache() abans de recompondre si alguna arriba tard. Fonts abans de compondre →

Crèdits

Text
Imatges
  • The lit candle on the lecture’s opener, a photograph · Generated With Diffusion Models · original
  • The snuffed candle on the notes’ band, a photograph · Generated With Diffusion Models · original
  • Figure 1, the flame as seen and in section, drawn in code in the page’s palette · Ignacio Ferro · CC BY 4.0
Fonts
Libre Bodoni (SIL OFL 1.1) · Besley (SIL OFL 1.1) · Archivo Narrow (SIL OFL 1.1)
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