What you'll build
The first seven pages of Lisbon on Foot, a pocket guide of 120 × 200 mm. The cover is a wall of blue-and-white azulejos with the title on a panel framed like a Lisbon street sign, and page 2 introduces the three walks with a map of their routes. Each walk has a colour, terracotta for Alfama and yellow for the Baixa, and a thumb tab on the fore-edge shows that colour and the walk’s number at the same height on every page of the walk. The opener band, the numbered stops, the recto running head and the tint of the Don’t miss box change with it. The blank verso that sends Walk 2 to a recto is painted in Walk 2’s yellow and prints its numeral. The text is Albert Sans, set ragged; the names are DM Serif Display and the labels Asap Condensed.
This recipe answers
- How do I hide running heads on openers and blank pages, or paint a blank verso in the part colour?
- How do I set running heads: book title on the left page, chapter title on the right, page number outside?
- How do I add a numbered tab ("BOX 1-1"), a corner icon, or a margin icon with a rule?
- How do I add colour-key swatches to text, captions or table notes?
The short answer
// '# Alfama {style="alfama"}' opens a section that runs to the next level-1 heading. Its
// palette gives band, bandInk, onBand and wash the walk's values on the section's pages,
// in the page furniture and in the text alike.
const walkStyles = Object.keys(WALKS).map((id) => ({ id, palette: WALKS[id] }));
// The tab has one size and one place on every page, hanging from the foot of the opener
// band; only its colour and its number change from walk to walk.
const TAB = { y: BAND, width: 7, height: 24 }; // mm
const tab = (parity, edge) => text(`tab-${parity}`, '{chapterNumber}', {
...label, fontSize: pt(11), fontWeight: 700, color: col('onBand'), align: 'center',
verticalAlign: 'middle', overflow: 'clip', box: { backgroundColor: col('band') },
parity, pages: 'all', // the walk's first page is an 'opener' page: the tab goes there too
}, { ...at('bleed', edge, 0, TAB.y), ...size(mm(TAB.width), mm(TAB.height)) });
const tabs = [tab('odd', 'top-right'), tab('even', 'top-left')]; // on the fore-edge
// The blank verso that pushes a walk onto a recto belongs to that walk (gotcha:
// section-last-wins), so the field takes the next walk's colour and its numeral the number.
const blankPage = [
box('field', { backgroundColor: col('band') },
{ ...at('bleed', 'top-left', 0, 0), ...size('fill', 'fill') }),
tileImage('field-tiles', 'tiles-page', 'top-left', 'fill', 'auto'),
text('field-number', '{chapterNumber}', { ...display, fontSize: pt(220), lineHeight: 1,
color: col('onBand'), overflow: 'clip' }, at('page', 'bottom-left', MARGIN.outer, -24)),
].map((el) => ({ ...el, pages: 'blank' }));
One tab and one blank-page field, coloured by the walk they belong to
Ingredients
- Features
- Bleed bands and thumb tabsColours per partHeads by page roleRunning heads per sectionHeading stylesDesigned openersHeading attributesNumbered headingsChapters that open on a rectoRunning heads and foliosSemantic colour paletteInline chipsBox icons and corner badgesColour swatchesFigures exactly hereCustom resource typesPictures in page designsText, rules and boxes in page designsCovers, title pages and colophonsPages on a canvas
- Also uses
- Callout boxesColumn balancingFull-width chapter bandPaper colourPage and column breaksParagraph stylesFigures and tables as resourcesLine breaks in titlesUnnumbered chapters
- Type
- Albert Sans, DM Serif Display, Asap Condensed (SIL OFL 1.1)
- Assets
- The tiles, the map of the routes and its pins, drawn in code (Ignacio Ferro, CC BY 4.0)
Method
#1 · Name the colours a walk changes
const palette = {
ink: '#1b2430', // text: a blue-black
paper: '#fffdf8', // the page
band: '#1f4e9c', // the section colour: tile blue until a walk replaces it
bandInk: '#1d4a94', // the section colour for type on paper
onBand: '#ffffff', // type set on the band
wash: '#e8eef8', // the section's box tint
muted: '#5e6875', // running heads, notes, chip outlines
};
// Each walk's values for those four. Baixa yellow is too light for white type, so its
// onBand is the ink. The text is recoloured by value, so the four base values must differ.
const WALKS = {
alfama: { band: '#b9533a', bandInk: '#a1432b', onBand: '#ffffff', wash: '#f7e7e0' },
baixa: { band: '#e2b23d', bandInk: '#7d5a0f', onBand: '#1b2430', wash: '#fbf0d5' },
belem: { band: '#2b7a78', bandInk: '#236866', onBand: '#ffffff', wash: '#e1eeed' },
};
const NAMES = { alfama: 'Alfama', baixa: 'Baixa', belem: 'Belém' };
// A walk's palette follows the paletteId; the hex is written out too, since the document
// palette never reaches design elements (gotcha: palette-skips-designs).
const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id] ?? WALKS[id].band, model: 'hex', paletteId: id });
const entry = (id, hex) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } });
const colorPalette = [
...Object.entries(palette).map(([id, hex]) => entry(id, hex)),
...Object.entries(WALKS).map(([id, w]) => entry(id, w.band)), // for :swatch{color="alfama"}
entry('main-color', palette.ink), // the engine's defaults link here: nothing prints blue
];
A heading style’s palette replaces entries by id on the pages of its section (heading styles), so every colour that should follow the walk links to one of four entries: band for the fields, the tab and the stop circles, bandInk for type on paper, onBand for type on a field and wash for the box. White on the Baixa yellow measures 2:1, so that walk’s onBand is the ink, at 8:1. Design elements follow the id, while the text is recoloured by value: a colour equal to an entry’s base hex takes the walk’s value, which is why the four base values all differ. The box title on page 4 and the line that sends you on to Walk 2 on page 5 are text in bandInk, and both print in terracotta. col() writes the hex beside the id because in 1.4.1 the document palette never reaches design elements.
#2 · Keep the running heads to body pages
const head = (id, content, parity, placement, style = {}) => ({ ...text(id, content, {
...label, fontSize: pt(7.8), letterSpacing: pt(1.3), color: col('muted'), overflow: 'clip',
...style }, placement), parity, pages: 'body' }); // never on openers or blank pages
const folio = { fontSize: pt(8.5), fontWeight: 700, color: col('ink') };
// Anchored to the page: from its top-right corner a negative x runs inwards
// (gotcha: negative-offsets).
const heads = [
head('verso-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'even', at('page', 'top-left', MARGIN.outer, HEAD.y), folio),
head('verso-title', '{title}', 'even', at('page', 'top-left', MARGIN.outer + HEAD.gap, HEAD.y)),
head('recto-title', `${t({ en: 'Walk', es: 'Paseo' })} {chapterNumber} · {chapterTitle}`, 'odd',
at('page', 'top-right', -(MARGIN.outer + HEAD.gap), HEAD.y), { color: col('bandInk') }),
head('recto-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'odd', at('page', 'top-right', -MARGIN.outer, HEAD.y), folio),
];
// Array order is paint order: the blank page's field comes last and covers the tab there.
const header = { elements: [...heads, ...tabs, ...blankPage] };
// A walk's first page has no running head: its folio drops to the foot.
const footer = { elements: [{ ...head('drop-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'all',
at('container', 'top', 0, 7), folio), pages: 'opener', align: 'center' }] };
// Page 2 comes before Walk 1, where {chapterNumber} is empty, so its header has no tabs. With the
// level's break off (gotcha: style-inherits-break) and in the column, it is a 'body' page.
const introStyle = { id: 'intro', numbered: false, header: { elements: heads },
span: 'column', breakBefore: { enabled: false }, advancedDesign: { enabled: false },
fontSize: pt(24), lineHeight: pt(2 * LEAD), marginBottom: pt(LEAD / 2) };
After layout every page gets a role (text elements). A walk’s first page is an opener, because its heading breaks the page; the padding page before a recto is blank; the rest are body. The heads take pages: 'body', so the openers on pages 3 and 7 and the blank page 6 have none, and the drop folio takes 'opener'. The verso prints the frontmatter’s {title}, the recto Walk {chapterNumber} · {chapterTitle} in bandInk, terracotta on page 5. The tabs from the short answer take 'all'. The blank page’s field comes after them in the array, and since array order is paint order it covers the tab on page 6. Page 2, the introduction, comes before Walk 1, so {chapterNumber} is empty there, and its style has a header of its own with the four heads and no tabs. Without it, page 2 would print an empty blue tab.
#3 · Open each walk under its band, and number its stops
const walkLevel = { level: 1, breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'odd' }, // a recto
span: 'page', // kept in the column, the band would be cut at the top margin, 18 mm down
// The band ends 30 mm into the text area; a floor of 8 grid lines, with nothing added
// under it, starts the text 7.3 mm below the band.
marginBottom: pt(0), advancedDesign: { enabled: true, minHeight: pt(8 * LEAD), slot: {
elements: [
box('band', { backgroundColor: col('band') },
{ ...at('bleed', 'top-left', 0, 0), ...size('fill', mm(BAND)) }),
tileImage('tiles', 'tiles-band', 'top-right', 'auto', mm(BAND)),
text('kicker', `${t({ en: 'Walk', es: 'Paseo' })} {chapterNumber}`, { ...label,
fontSize: pt(9), letterSpacing: pt(2), color: col('onBand') },
at('page', 'top-left', MARGIN.inner, 17)), // walks open on rectos: inner is left
text('title', '{titleText}', { ...display, fontSize: pt(34), lineHeight: 1,
color: col('onBand') }, { ...at('#kicker', 'below', 0, 1), ...size(mm(70), 'auto') }),
text('route', '{attr.route}', { fontFamily: 'Albert Sans', italic: true, fontSize: pt(10),
color: col('onBand') }, { ...at('#title', 'below', 0, 1.5), ...size(mm(70), 'auto') }),
] } } };
const STOP = 5.4; // mm: the diameter of a stop's circle
const stopLevel = { level: 3, numberingTemplate: '{3}', // restarts at every walk
// A grid line above a stop and no margin under it, so the circle can sit 3.2 mm down its
// two grid lines: about 8.3 mm of white above a stop and 2.1 under it, 6.4 between paragraphs.
marginTop: pt(LEAD), marginBottom: pt(0), advancedDesign: { enabled: true, slot: { elements: [
text('number', '{number}', { ...label, fontSize: pt(9), fontWeight: 700, align: 'center',
verticalAlign: 'middle', color: col('onBand'), overflow: 'clip',
box: { backgroundColor: col('band'), borderRadius: mm(STOP / 2) } },
{ ...at('container', 'top-left', 0, 3.2), ...size(mm(STOP), mm(STOP)) }),
text('name', '{titleText}', { ...display, fontSize: pt(13.5), lineHeight: 1.1,
color: col('ink') }, { ...at('#number', 'right-of', 2.4, 0.2), ...size('fill', 'auto') }),
] } } };
The band is anchored to the bleed, which is the trim here, and reaches 30 mm into the text area. That needs span: 'page', because in 1.4.1 a design kept in the column is cut at the top margin and the band would start 18 mm down. The design ends with the band and minHeight reserves eight grid lines, 37.3 mm; the opener takes the larger depth, so on pages 3 and 7 the text starts 7.3 mm under the band. Each stop is a level-3 heading whose design sets {number} in a 5.4 mm circle filled with band. The template {3} restarts at every walk, since a level-1 heading resets the deeper counters, and the pins on the map carry the same numbers. A stop has a grid line of margin above it and none below, and its circle sits 3.2 mm down the two grid lines the heading fills. That leaves about 8.3 mm of white above the circle and 2.1 mm under it; paragraphs are 6.4 mm apart.
#4 · Hang a tile on the box, and keep the chips in ink
const calloutStyles = [{ id: 'dontmiss', title: t({ en: 'Don’t miss', es: 'No te lo pierdas' }),
background: col('wash'), // one device: the walk's tint
// The tile hangs half off the box's outer side, flush with its top: the left side on a verso.
// With 6.5 mm of padding on both sides the title stays in line with the box's text there too.
// The tile's colours are drawn into the SVG, so it stays tile blue in every walk.
padding: { top: mm(3.4), right: mm(6.5), bottom: mm(3.4), left: mm(6.5) },
icon: { kind: 'resource', resourceId: 'tile', size: mm(10), position: 'corner',
cornerSide: 'outer' },
titleStyle: { ...label, fontSize: pt(8.5), fontWeight: 700, letterSpacing: pt(1.5),
color: col('bandInk') },
body: { fontSize: pt(9), lineHeight: pt(12.4), color: col('ink') } }];
// A walk's palette does not reach chips: one linked to 'band' would stay tile blue in every
// walk, so the facts are ink on paper (gotcha: section-palette-skips-chips).
const chipStyles = [{ id: 'fact', background: col('paper'), borderColor: col('muted'),
borderWidth: pt(0.6), borderRadius: mm(0.8), paddingX: mm(1.4), paddingY: mm(0.5),
fontFamily: 'Asap Condensed', fontSize: em(0.92), color: col('ink'), bold: true }];
The box has no rule or border, only the walk’s tint and a tile drawn in code on its corner (callout styles). cornerSide: 'outer' hangs the tile half off the box’s outer side, flush with its top; on page 4, a verso, that is the left side, where the title starts. With 6.5 mm of padding on both sides the title clears the tile and stays in line with the box’s text on either page. The walk’s palette recolours the tint and the title, while the tile stays blue, because its colours are drawn into the SVG. A walk’s palette does not reach chips in 1.4.1: linked to band, the walk’s facts would stay tile blue in both walks. So the chips are ink on paper with a grey outline in muted, the same in every walk.
#5 · Key the map with the walks’ swatches
const map = svg('routes', MAP.width, MAP.height, { placement: { position: 'here' }, ...t({ en: {
caption: 'The three walks. The numbered pins are the stops in the text.',
note: ':swatch{color="alfama"} Walk 1, Alfama · :swatch{color="baixa"} Walk 2, Baixa · '
+ ':swatch{color="belem"} Walk 3, Belém, 6 km west (inset)',
altText: 'Map of central Lisbon north of the river: the yellow route runs from the '
+ 'waterfront up the Baixa grid to Rossio; the terracotta route climbs east from the '
+ 'cathedral through Alfama. An inset shows the teal Belém route.',
}, es: {
caption: 'Los tres paseos. Los pines numerados son las paradas del texto.',
note: ':swatch{color="alfama"} Paseo 1, Alfama · :swatch{color="baixa"} Paseo 2, Baixa · '
+ ':swatch{color="belem"} Paseo 3, Belém, 6 km al oeste (en el detalle)',
altText: 'Plano del centro de Lisboa al norte del río: la ruta amarilla sube desde el '
+ 'muelle por la cuadrícula de la Baixa hasta el Rossio; la terracota sube hacia el este '
+ 'desde la catedral por Alfama. En un detalle, la ruta verde azulada de Belém.',
} }) });
The map is an SVG resource set where ::resource{id="routes"} stands, with a resource type of its own so that its caption reads Map 1. The note keys the routes with three swatches, :swatch{color="alfama"} and the same for baixa and belem. A swatch takes the id of a palette entry (inline formatting). The palette gets one entry per walk from WALKS, and the drawing takes its route colours from the same object, so the key matches the routes and the tabs. The numbers in the pins are drawn as strokes, since an SVG drawn as an image cannot use the page’s web fonts.
The whole recipe
// ═══ Postext Cookbook · Nº 047 · Walking guide with thumb tabs ═══════════════════ // https://postext.dev/en/cookbook/walking-guide-thumb-tabs // Code: MIT · Text: original (CC BY 4.0) · Map and tiles: drawn in code (CC BY 4.0) // Fonts: Albert Sans, DM Serif Display, Asap Condensed (SIL OFL 1.1) · Needs postext ≥ 1.4.1 // A pocket guide to Lisbon. Each walk is a heading style that sets four colours, and the tab, // the stop numbers, the box's tint and title and the blank page before the walk take them. import { buildDocument, renderPageToCanvas, clearMeasurementCache, registerResourceImage, } from 'https://esm.sh/postext'; const LANG = 'en'; // @lang: the language of the sample document ('en' | 'es') const RECIPE = 'walking-guide-thumb-tabs'; // ─── 1 · Design ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // #region palette: 'band' and three partners are the entries a walk overrides const palette = { ink: '#1b2430', // text: a blue-black paper: '#fffdf8', // the page band: '#1f4e9c', // the section colour: tile blue until a walk replaces it bandInk: '#1d4a94', // the section colour for type on paper onBand: '#ffffff', // type set on the band wash: '#e8eef8', // the section's box tint muted: '#5e6875', // running heads, notes, chip outlines }; // Each walk's values for those four. Baixa yellow is too light for white type, so its // onBand is the ink. The text is recoloured by value, so the four base values must differ. const WALKS = { alfama: { band: '#b9533a', bandInk: '#a1432b', onBand: '#ffffff', wash: '#f7e7e0' }, baixa: { band: '#e2b23d', bandInk: '#7d5a0f', onBand: '#1b2430', wash: '#fbf0d5' }, belem: { band: '#2b7a78', bandInk: '#236866', onBand: '#ffffff', wash: '#e1eeed' }, }; const NAMES = { alfama: 'Alfama', baixa: 'Baixa', belem: 'Belém' }; // A walk's palette follows the paletteId; the hex is written out too, since the document // palette never reaches design elements (gotcha: palette-skips-designs). const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id] ?? WALKS[id].band, model: 'hex', paletteId: id }); const entry = (id, hex) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } }); const colorPalette = [ ...Object.entries(palette).map(([id, hex]) => entry(id, hex)), ...Object.entries(WALKS).map(([id, w]) => entry(id, w.band)), // for :swatch{color="alfama"} entry('main-color', palette.ink), // the engine's defaults link here: nothing prints blue ]; // #endregion const TRIM = { width: 120, height: 200 }; // a pocket guide // Mirrored, and tighter than a book's at top and foot: a pocket guide keeps 164 mm of text. const MARGIN = { top: 18, bottom: 18, inner: 14, outer: 16 }; const MEASURE = TRIM.width - MARGIN.inner - MARGIN.outer; // 90 mm, about 55 characters const LEAD = 13.2; // body leading in pt: the baseline grid const BAND = 48; // mm: a walk opener's colour band, from the top edge const HEAD = { y: 10, gap: 7 }; // running heads from the top edge; folio to title (mm) const label = { fontFamily: 'Asap Condensed', fontWeight: 600, textTransform: 'uppercase' }; const display = { fontFamily: 'DM Serif Display', fontWeight: 400 }; const at = (to, edge, x, y) => ({ anchor: { to, edge }, offset: { x: mm(x), y: mm(y) } }); const size = (width, height) => ({ size: { width, height } }); const text = (id, content, style, placement) => ({ kind: 'text', id, content, overflow: 'wrap', align: 'left', ...style, placement }); const box = (id, style, placement) => ({ kind: 'box', id, style, placement }); const tileImage = (id, resourceId, edge, width, height) => ({ kind: 'image', id, resourceId, placement: { ...at('bleed', edge, 0, 0), ...size(width, height) } }); // #region answer: one tab and one blank-page field, coloured by the walk they belong to // '# Alfama {style="alfama"}' opens a section that runs to the next level-1 heading. Its // palette gives band, bandInk, onBand and wash the walk's values on the section's pages, // in the page furniture and in the text alike. const walkStyles = Object.keys(WALKS).map((id) => ({ id, palette: WALKS[id] })); // The tab has one size and one place on every page, hanging from the foot of the opener // band; only its colour and its number change from walk to walk. const TAB = { y: BAND, width: 7, height: 24 }; // mm const tab = (parity, edge) => text(`tab-${parity}`, '{chapterNumber}', { ...label, fontSize: pt(11), fontWeight: 700, color: col('onBand'), align: 'center', verticalAlign: 'middle', overflow: 'clip', box: { backgroundColor: col('band') }, parity, pages: 'all', // the walk's first page is an 'opener' page: the tab goes there too }, { ...at('bleed', edge, 0, TAB.y), ...size(mm(TAB.width), mm(TAB.height)) }); const tabs = [tab('odd', 'top-right'), tab('even', 'top-left')]; // on the fore-edge // The blank verso that pushes a walk onto a recto belongs to that walk (gotcha: // section-last-wins), so the field takes the next walk's colour and its numeral the number. const blankPage = [ box('field', { backgroundColor: col('band') }, { ...at('bleed', 'top-left', 0, 0), ...size('fill', 'fill') }), tileImage('field-tiles', 'tiles-page', 'top-left', 'fill', 'auto'), text('field-number', '{chapterNumber}', { ...display, fontSize: pt(220), lineHeight: 1, color: col('onBand'), overflow: 'clip' }, at('page', 'bottom-left', MARGIN.outer, -24)), ].map((el) => ({ ...el, pages: 'blank' })); // #endregion // #region running-heads: book title on the verso, walk on the recto, folios outside const head = (id, content, parity, placement, style = {}) => ({ ...text(id, content, { ...label, fontSize: pt(7.8), letterSpacing: pt(1.3), color: col('muted'), overflow: 'clip', ...style }, placement), parity, pages: 'body' }); // never on openers or blank pages const folio = { fontSize: pt(8.5), fontWeight: 700, color: col('ink') }; // Anchored to the page: from its top-right corner a negative x runs inwards // (gotcha: negative-offsets). const heads = [ head('verso-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'even', at('page', 'top-left', MARGIN.outer, HEAD.y), folio), head('verso-title', '{title}', 'even', at('page', 'top-left', MARGIN.outer + HEAD.gap, HEAD.y)), head('recto-title', `${t({ en: 'Walk', es: 'Paseo' })} {chapterNumber} · {chapterTitle}`, 'odd', at('page', 'top-right', -(MARGIN.outer + HEAD.gap), HEAD.y), { color: col('bandInk') }), head('recto-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'odd', at('page', 'top-right', -MARGIN.outer, HEAD.y), folio), ]; // Array order is paint order: the blank page's field comes last and covers the tab there. const header = { elements: [...heads, ...tabs, ...blankPage] }; // A walk's first page has no running head: its folio drops to the foot. const footer = { elements: [{ ...head('drop-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'all', at('container', 'top', 0, 7), folio), pages: 'opener', align: 'center' }] }; // Page 2 comes before Walk 1, where {chapterNumber} is empty, so its header has no tabs. With the // level's break off (gotcha: style-inherits-break) and in the column, it is a 'body' page. const introStyle = { id: 'intro', numbered: false, header: { elements: heads }, span: 'column', breakBefore: { enabled: false }, advancedDesign: { enabled: false }, fontSize: pt(24), lineHeight: pt(2 * LEAD), marginBottom: pt(LEAD / 2) }; // #endregion // #region levels: a walk opens under a band in its colour; its stops are numbered circles const walkLevel = { level: 1, breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'odd' }, // a recto span: 'page', // kept in the column, the band would be cut at the top margin, 18 mm down // The band ends 30 mm into the text area; a floor of 8 grid lines, with nothing added // under it, starts the text 7.3 mm below the band. marginBottom: pt(0), advancedDesign: { enabled: true, minHeight: pt(8 * LEAD), slot: { elements: [ box('band', { backgroundColor: col('band') }, { ...at('bleed', 'top-left', 0, 0), ...size('fill', mm(BAND)) }), tileImage('tiles', 'tiles-band', 'top-right', 'auto', mm(BAND)), text('kicker', `${t({ en: 'Walk', es: 'Paseo' })} {chapterNumber}`, { ...label, fontSize: pt(9), letterSpacing: pt(2), color: col('onBand') }, at('page', 'top-left', MARGIN.inner, 17)), // walks open on rectos: inner is left text('title', '{titleText}', { ...display, fontSize: pt(34), lineHeight: 1, color: col('onBand') }, { ...at('#kicker', 'below', 0, 1), ...size(mm(70), 'auto') }), text('route', '{attr.route}', { fontFamily: 'Albert Sans', italic: true, fontSize: pt(10), color: col('onBand') }, { ...at('#title', 'below', 0, 1.5), ...size(mm(70), 'auto') }), ] } } }; const STOP = 5.4; // mm: the diameter of a stop's circle const stopLevel = { level: 3, numberingTemplate: '{3}', // restarts at every walk // A grid line above a stop and no margin under it, so the circle can sit 3.2 mm down its // two grid lines: about 8.3 mm of white above a stop and 2.1 under it, 6.4 between paragraphs. marginTop: pt(LEAD), marginBottom: pt(0), advancedDesign: { enabled: true, slot: { elements: [ text('number', '{number}', { ...label, fontSize: pt(9), fontWeight: 700, align: 'center', verticalAlign: 'middle', color: col('onBand'), overflow: 'clip', box: { backgroundColor: col('band'), borderRadius: mm(STOP / 2) } }, { ...at('container', 'top-left', 0, 3.2), ...size(mm(STOP), mm(STOP)) }), text('name', '{titleText}', { ...display, fontSize: pt(13.5), lineHeight: 1.1, color: col('ink') }, { ...at('#number', 'right-of', 2.4, 0.2), ...size('fill', 'auto') }), ] } } }; // #endregion // The cover: a wall of tiles, the title on a plaque like a Lisbon street sign, the walks' keys. const plaque = size(mm(94), 'auto'); // the width of the texts on the plaque const rim = (id, x, y, w, h, style) => box(id, { borderColor: col('band'), ...style }, { ...at('page', 'top-left', x, y), ...size(mm(w), mm(h)) }); const cover = { enabled: true, slot: { elements: [ tileImage('wall', 'tiles-cover', 'top-left', 'fill', 'auto'), rim('plaque', 13, 88, 94, 62, { backgroundColor: col('paper'), borderWidth: pt(1.6) }), rim('frame', 15.2, 90.2, 89.6, 57.6, { borderWidth: pt(0.5) }), // the inner frame line text('kicker', t({ en: 'A pocket guide', es: 'Guía de bolsillo' }), { ...label, align: 'center', fontSize: pt(8.5), letterSpacing: pt(2), color: col('bandInk') }, // centred text sits left { ...at('page', 'top-left', 13 + 0.35, 96), ...plaque }), // by half its tracking: 1 pt, 0.35 mm text('title', '{titleText}', { ...display, fontSize: pt(46), lineHeight: 0.98, align: 'center', color: col('band') }, { ...at('#kicker', 'below', 0, 2), ...plaque }), text('subtitle', '{subtitle}', { fontFamily: 'Albert Sans', italic: true, fontSize: pt(10.5), color: col('ink'), align: 'center' }, { ...at('#title', 'below', 0, 3), ...plaque }), ...Object.keys(WALKS).flatMap((id, i) => [text(`key-${id}`, String(i + 1), { ...label, fontSize: pt(10), fontWeight: 700, align: 'center', verticalAlign: 'middle', overflow: 'clip', color: col(WALKS[id].onBand === palette.ink ? 'ink' : 'onBand'), box: { backgroundColor: col(id) } }, { ...at('page', 'top-left', 17 + i * 30, 166), ...size(mm(7), mm(7)) }), text(`name-${id}`, NAMES[id], { ...display, fontSize: pt(13), color: col('ink') }, at(`#key-${id}`, 'right-of', 2.2, 0.4))]), ] } }; // #region box-and-chips: a tile on the box's outer corner; chips that stay in ink const calloutStyles = [{ id: 'dontmiss', title: t({ en: 'Don’t miss', es: 'No te lo pierdas' }), background: col('wash'), // one device: the walk's tint // The tile hangs half off the box's outer side, flush with its top: the left side on a verso. // With 6.5 mm of padding on both sides the title stays in line with the box's text there too. // The tile's colours are drawn into the SVG, so it stays tile blue in every walk. padding: { top: mm(3.4), right: mm(6.5), bottom: mm(3.4), left: mm(6.5) }, icon: { kind: 'resource', resourceId: 'tile', size: mm(10), position: 'corner', cornerSide: 'outer' }, titleStyle: { ...label, fontSize: pt(8.5), fontWeight: 700, letterSpacing: pt(1.5), color: col('bandInk') }, body: { fontSize: pt(9), lineHeight: pt(12.4), color: col('ink') } }]; // A walk's palette does not reach chips: one linked to 'band' would stay tile blue in every // walk, so the facts are ink on paper (gotcha: section-palette-skips-chips). const chipStyles = [{ id: 'fact', background: col('paper'), borderColor: col('muted'), borderWidth: pt(0.6), borderRadius: mm(0.8), paddingX: mm(1.4), paddingY: mm(0.5), fontFamily: 'Asap Condensed', fontSize: em(0.92), color: col('ink'), bold: true }]; // #endregion const MAP_WORD = t({ en: 'Map', es: 'Plano' }); // the caption reads 'Map 1' const config = () => ({ // a factory: the engine caches resolved configs per object colorPalette, page: { sizePreset: 'custom', width: mm(TRIM.width), height: mm(TRIM.height), dpi: 150, backgroundColor: col('paper'), margins: { top: mm(MARGIN.top), bottom: mm(MARGIN.bottom), left: mm(MARGIN.inner), right: mm(MARGIN.outer), mirror: true } }, layout: { layoutType: 'single' }, // Ragged text for short lines of directions. It is never hyphenated (gotcha: // ragged-no-hyphenation) and never checked for runts (gotcha: ragged-runts). bodyText: { fontFamily: 'Albert Sans', fontSize: pt(9.4), lineHeight: pt(LEAD), color: col('ink'), boldColor: col('ink'), italicColor: col('ink'), referenceColor: col('ink'), textAlign: 'left', firstLineIndent: mm(0), paragraphSpacing: true }, // No lines added above the stops to fill a page: a guide's pages may end short. headings: { ...display, color: col('ink'), balancing: { enabled: false }, // Any headings object drops the level-1 break: it is stated in walkLevel // (gotcha: headings-drop-h1-break). levels: [walkLevel, stopLevel] }, headingStyles: [ { id: 'cover', numbered: false, advancedDesign: cover, header: { elements: [] }, footer: { elements: [] } }, introStyle, ...walkStyles, ], resourceTypes: [{ id: 'map', name: MAP_WORD, shortLabel: MAP_WORD, captionPrefix: MAP_WORD, numberingTemplate: '{n}', resetOn: 'never', counterFormat: 'decimal' }], captionStyle: { fontFamily: 'Asap Condensed', fontSize: pt(8.6), color: col('ink'), labelColor: col('bandInk'), gap: mm(2), note: { fontSize: pt(8), color: col('muted') } }, calloutStyles, chipStyles, paragraphStyles: [{ id: 'colophon', fontFamily: 'Asap Condensed', fontSize: pt(7.8), lineHeight: pt(10.4), color: col('muted') }, // then the line that ends a walk, in its colour { id: 'onward', fontFamily: 'Asap Condensed', fontSize: pt(10), color: col('bandInk'), boldColor: col('bandInk'), marginTop: pt(2 * LEAD) }], header, footer, }); // #region art: the tiles, the map and its pins, drawn in code and seeded: every run the same let seed = 1755; // Mulberry32, a tiny seeded PRNG: never Math.random() in a recipe const rand = () => { let r = Math.imul((seed = (seed + 0x6d2b79f5) | 0) ^ (seed >>> 15), 1 | seed); r = (r + Math.imul(r ^ (r >>> 7), 61 | r)) ^ r; return ((r ^ (r >>> 14)) >>> 0) / 4294967296; }; const n = (v) => v.toFixed(2); const sheet = (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 fill = (c, o = 1) => `fill="${c}"${o < 1 ? ` fill-opacity="${n(o)}"` : ''}`; const line = (c, w, o = 1) => `fill="none" stroke="${c}" stroke-width="${n(w)}" ` + `stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"${o < 1 ? ` stroke-opacity="${n(o)}"` : ''}`; const shape = (pts, paint) => `<path d="M${pts.map(([x, y]) => `${n(x)} ${n(y)}`).join(' L')} Z" ` + `${paint}/>`; const put = (x, y, turn, body) => `<g transform="translate(${n(x)} ${n(y)}) rotate(${turn})">` + `${body}</g>`; // A petal pointing up from the origin: `len` long, `wid` at its widest. const petal = (len, wid) => `M0 0C${n(wid)} ${n(-len * 0.3)} ${n(wid * 0.7)} ${n(-len * 0.8)} ` + `0 ${n(-len)}C${n(-wid * 0.7)} ${n(-len * 0.8)} ${n(-wid)} ${n(-len * 0.3)} 0 0Z`; const flower = (x, y, [axis, axisW, diag = 0, diagW = 0], paint) => [0, 45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270, 315].filter((turn) => diag || turn % 90 === 0).map((turn) => put(x, y, turn, `<path d="${turn % 90 ? petal(diag, diagW) : petal(axis, axisW)}" ${paint}/>`)).join(''); // A pattern of s-mm tiles, as on a Lisbon façade: a circle round every corner where four // tiles meet, and a flower in the diamond each tile keeps between the circles. `glaze` // paints the tiles; without it only the motif is drawn, to lay over a colour. function tiles(w, h, s, ink, { glaze, tint, o = 1, x0 = 0, y0 = 0 } = {}) { const [cols, rows] = [Math.ceil((w - x0) / s), Math.ceil((h - y0) / s)]; let [back, front] = [glaze ? `<rect width="${w}" height="${h}" ${fill(glaze)}/>` : '', '']; for (let r = -1; r <= rows; r++) { for (let c = -1; c <= cols; c++) { const [x, y] = [x0 + c * s, y0 + r * s]; back += `<circle cx="${n(x)}" cy="${n(y)}" r="${n(s * 0.47)}" ` + `${fill(tint ?? ink, glaze ? 1 : o * 0.35)}/>`; front += `<circle cx="${n(x)}" cy="${n(y)}" r="${n(s * 0.47)}" ${line(ink, s * 0.035, o)}/>` + (glaze ? flower(x, y, [s * 0.2, s * 0.06], fill(ink, o)) : '') // glazed tiles only + flower(x + s / 2, y + s / 2, [s * 0.36, s * 0.075, s * 0.17, s * 0.05], fill(ink, o)) + `<circle cx="${n(x + s / 2)}" cy="${n(y + s / 2)}" r="${n(s * 0.06)}" ` + `${fill(glaze ?? ink, o)}/>`; } } return back + front; } const TILE = 15; // mm: one tile on the cover and on the bands const BLUE = { tint: '#dde6f3', glaze: '#f8f5ee' }; function coverTiles() { const [w, h] = [TRIM.width, 112]; let g = tiles(w, h, TILE, palette.band, { ...BLUE, y0: -4 }); // The joints, through the flowers where four tiles meet. for (let k = 1; k < 8; k++) { g += `<path d="M${k * TILE} 0V${h}M0 ${k * TILE - 4}H${w}" ${line('#a9a292', 0.2, 0.6)}/>`; } // At the fore-edge one tile is missing and the plaster shows, in the shadow of the tiles // round it; the tile beside it has lost a jagged strip along their joint. const [x, y] = [7 * TILE, TILE - 4]; const edge = [[x, y], [x - 2.6, y + 1.8], [x - 1.4, y + 4.6], [x - 3.4, y + 7.4], [x - 1.8, y + 10.2], [x - 2.4, y + 12.6], [x, y + 13.4], [x, y + TILE]]; const hole = (d) => [[x + TILE, y + d], ...edge.map(([a, b]) => [a + d, Math.max(b, y + d)]), [x + TILE, y + TILE]]; g += shape(hole(0), fill('#a89c83')) + shape(hole(0.8), fill('#d6ccb8')); for (let i = 0; i < 16; i++) { g += `<circle cx="${n(x - 2 + rand() * (TILE + 2))}" cy="${n(y + rand() * TILE)}" ` + `r="${n(0.12 + rand() * 0.3)}" ${fill('#b3a78f', 0.8)}/>`; } return sheet(w, h, g); } // The white motif laid over a walk's band, and over the page before a walk. const bandTiles = () => sheet(3 * TILE, BAND, tiles(3 * TILE, BAND, TILE, '#ffffff', { o: 0.3, y0: BAND - 3 * TILE })); const pageTiles = () => sheet(TRIM.width, TRIM.height, tiles(TRIM.width, TRIM.height, TILE, '#ffffff', { o: 0.2, y0: BAND - 3 * TILE })); // The corner badge of the 'Don't miss' box: one tile, framed. const tileIcon = () => sheet(TILE, TILE, tiles(TILE, TILE, TILE, palette.band, BLUE) + `<rect x="0.35" y="0.35" width="${TILE - 0.7}" height="${TILE - 0.7}" ` + `${line(palette.band, 0.7)}/>`); // Digits drawn as strokes in a 6 × 10 box: an SVG drawn as an image cannot use the page's // web fonts (gotcha: svg-no-webfonts). const GLYPH = { 0: 'M3 0C0.6 0 0 2.6 0 5S0.6 10 3 10 6 7.4 6 5 5.4 0 3 0Z', 1: 'M1.2 2.2L3.6 0V10', 2: 'M0.5 2.4C0.8 0.7 2 0 3.2 0C4.8 0 5.8 1.1 5.8 2.7C5.8 4.8 3.8 6 0.4 10H6', 3: 'M0.5 1.3C1.2 0.4 2.2 0 3.2 0C4.8 0 5.8 1 5.8 2.5C5.8 4 4.5 4.8 2.6 4.8C4.6 4.8 6 5.8 6 7.4' + 'C6 9.1 4.8 10 3 10C1.9 10 0.9 9.6 0.2 8.6', 4: 'M4.4 10V0L0 7H6.2', 5: 'M5.6 0H1.2L0.7 4.6C1.4 4 2.3 3.8 3.1 3.8C4.9 3.8 6 5 6 6.9S4.8 10 3 10C1.9 10 0.9 9.6' + ' 0.3 8.8', N: 'M0 10V0L6 10V0', B: 'M0 10V0H3.4C4.9 0 5.6 1 5.6 2.4S4.9 4.8 3.4 4.8H0M3.4 4.8C5.1 4.8 6 5.8 6 7.4' + 'S5.1 10 3.4 10H0', E: 'M5.6 0H0V10H5.8M0 4.8H4.4', 'É': 'M5.6 0H0V10H5.8M0 4.8H4.4M2.4 -1.6L3.8 -3.2', L: 'M0 0V10H5.6', M: 'M0 10V0L3 6.4L6 0V10', m: 'M0 10V4.6M0 5.6C0 4.6 0.8 4 1.6 4S3 4.6 3 5.6V10M3 5.6C3 4.6 3.7 4 4.5 4S6 4.6 6 5.6V10', ' ': '', }; const glyphs = (str, x, y, h, c, w) => [...str].map((ch, i) => `<path transform="translate(` + `${n(x + i * h * 0.8)} ${n(y)}) scale(${n(h / 10)})" d="${GLYPH[ch]}" ` + `${line(c, w / (h / 10))}/>`).join(''); // A pin: a disc in the walk's colour with its stop number, on a paper ring. const pin = ([x, y], num, w) => `<circle cx="${n(x)}" cy="${n(y)}" r="2.4" ${fill(palette.paper)}/>` + `<circle cx="${n(x)}" cy="${n(y)}" r="2" ${fill(w.band)}/>` + glyphs(String(num), x - 0.95, y - 1.3, 2.6, w.onBand, 0.42); const route = (pts, w) => { const d = `M${pts.map(([x, y]) => `${n(x)} ${n(y)}`).join(' L')}`; return `<path d="${d}" ${line(palette.paper, 1.9)}/><path d="${d}" ${line(w.band, 1.05)}/>`; }; // Central Lisbon, north up, at 1:20 000 (1 km = 50 mm): the Baixa's grid on the line of // Rua Augusta, Alfama's lanes round the castle hill, the river. Drawn on a 60 mm sheet // and cropped to 56 mm, 3 mm off the top. The routes measure 0.77 km and 1.38 km. const MAP = { width: MEASURE, height: 56 }; const SHORE = [[0, 57], [12, 56.5], [22, 55], [32, 51.5], [44, 46.5], [54, 41.5], [64, 35.5], [74, 29], [84, 23], [MAP.width, 20]]; const shoreY = (x) => { const i = Math.max(1, SHORE.findIndex(([sx]) => sx >= x)); const [[x0, y0], [x1, y1]] = [SHORE[i - 1], SHORE[i]]; return y0 + ((x - x0) / (x1 - x0)) * (y1 - y0); }; // The Baixa frame: u runs up Rua Augusta from its arch, v runs east across it. const ARCH = [21.7, 43.8]; const baixa = (u, v) => [ARCH[0] - 0.292 * u + 0.955 * v, ARCH[1] - 0.955 * u - 0.292 * v]; const inBaixa = ([x, y]) => { const [dx, dy] = [x - ARCH[0], y - ARCH[1]]; const [u, v] = [-0.292 * dx - 0.955 * dy, 0.955 * dx - 0.292 * dy]; return u > -10.5 && u < 44 && Math.abs(v) < 10.2; }; const STOPS = { baixa: [baixa(-4.8, 0), baixa(0.9, 0), baixa(32.2, -2.75)], alfama: [[35.2, 36.6], [49.4, 27.8], [51.6, 23], [65.6, 6.4], [78.6, 11.8]], belem: [[76.5, 44.2], [78.6, 53], [59.8, 54.9]], }; function mapArt() { const [w, h] = [MAP.width, 60]; const [block, water, green] = ['#e5dccb', '#d4e1ee', '#d3dcc3']; const paint = fill(block); let g = `<rect width="${w}" height="${h}" ${fill(palette.paper)}/>` + shape([...SHORE, [w, h], [0, h]], fill(water)); for (let i = 0; i < 44; i++) { // ripples on the river const x = rand() * w; const y = shoreY(x) + 1.6 + rand() * (h - shoreY(x)); g += `<path d="M${n(x)} ${n(y)} q0.9 -0.45 1.8 0" ${line('#b3c7da', 0.22)}/>`; } // The Baixa: blocks between parallel streets, Rua Augusta (v = 0) up the middle. for (const v0 of [-9.15, -5.95, -2.75, 0.45, 3.65, 6.85]) { for (let u0 = 2.2; u0 < 44; u0 += 2.7) { if (u0 > 25.5 && u0 < 37.5 && v0 > -6 && v0 < 0) continue; // Rossio g += shape([baixa(u0, v0), baixa(u0, v0 + 2.3), baixa(u0 + 2, v0 + 2.3), baixa(u0 + 2, v0)], paint); } } // Praça do Comércio: arcades on three sides, the river on the fourth. for (const [u0, u1, v0, v1] of [[-8.8, 0.3, -8.4, -6.3], [-8.8, 0.3, 6.3, 8.4], [-0.4, 1.5, -8.4, -0.55], [-0.4, 1.5, 0.55, 8.4]]) { g += shape([baixa(u0, v0), baixa(u0, v1), baixa(u1, v1), baixa(u1, v0)], paint); } // Everywhere else, the older town: small, uneven blocks. const castle = [[30, 12], [34, 9.5], [40, 11], [41, 16], [36, 18.5], [30.5, 17]]; for (let y = 1; y < h; y += 2.9) { for (let x = 0.5; x < w; x += 3) { const [bw, bh] = [1.3 + rand() * 1.3, 1.2 + rand() * 1.2]; const [cx, cy] = [x + rand() * 0.6, y + rand() * 0.6]; if (cy + bh + 0.8 > shoreY(cx + bw / 2) || inBaixa([cx + bw / 2, cy + bh / 2])) continue; if (Math.hypot(cx - 35.5, cy - 14) < 7) continue; // the castle's hill const j = () => (rand() - 0.5) * 0.5; g += shape([[cx + j(), cy + j()], [cx + bw + j(), cy + j()], [cx + bw + j(), cy + bh + j()], [cx + j(), cy + bh + j()]], paint); } } // São Jorge castle: its walls and towers among the pines. for (let i = 0; i < 26; i++) { const [a, d] = [rand() * Math.PI * 2, 5 + rand() * 1.8]; g += `<circle cx="${n(35.5 + Math.cos(a) * d)}" cy="${n(14 + Math.sin(a) * d * 0.8)}" ` + `r="${n(0.5 + rand() * 0.4)}" ${fill(green)}/>`; } g += shape(castle, `${fill('#ddd3bf')} stroke="#a89c83" stroke-width="0.35"`) + castle.map(([x, y]) => `<rect x="${n(x - 0.6)}" y="${n(y - 0.6)}" width="1.2" height="1.2" ` + `${fill('#a89c83')}/>`).join(''); // The two walks in town. const [a, b, c] = [WALKS.alfama, WALKS.baixa, WALKS.belem]; const [se, luzia, sol, vicente, pantheon] = STOPS.alfama; g += route([STOPS.baixa[0], baixa(0, 0), baixa(27, 0), baixa(29, -2.75), STOPS.baixa[2]], b) + route([se, [38.4, 37.8], [41.4, 36.6], [42.4, 33.4], [45.2, 32.8], [46.6, 30.2], [48.8, 30.4], luzia, sol, [55.2, 21.8], [55.8, 18.4], [59.6, 17.4], [61.6, 15.4], [60.6, 12.6], [62.8, 11.6], [63.4, 8.6], vicente, [69.8, 4.8], [74.2, 5.4], [77.2, 7.4], [77.4, 9.2], pantheon], a) + STOPS.baixa.map((p, i) => pin(p, i + 1, b)).join('') + STOPS.alfama.map((p, i) => pin(p, i + 1, a)).join(''); // Belém, 6 km west, in an inset on the river at 1:45 000: the monastery, its gardens, the // monument on the waterfront and the tower in the water. const inset = 'x="57" y="40.5" width="31" height="18"'; g += `<rect ${inset} ${fill(palette.paper)}/>` + `<rect x="57" y="53.2" width="31" height="5.3" ${fill(water)}/>` + `<rect x="71.5" y="42.4" width="12.5" height="3.2" ${fill(block)}/>` + `<rect x="74" y="47" width="8.5" height="3.6" ${fill(green)}/>` + `<path d="M57 51.6 H88" fill="none" stroke="#ffffff" stroke-width="0.8"/>` // square ends + `<path d="M59 55.6 L59.8 53.2" ${line(block, 0.6)}/><rect x="58.3" y="55" width="1.6" ` + `height="1.6" ${fill(block)}/>` + glyphs('BELÉM', 59, 42.9, 2.2, palette.ink, 0.3) + route([STOPS.belem[0], [77.6, 48.8], STOPS.belem[1], [70, 52.5], [63, 52.7], STOPS.belem[2]], c) + STOPS.belem.map((p, i) => pin(p, i + 1, c)).join('') // The frame goes on last, over the road and the river that run to its edges. + `<rect ${inset} fill="none" stroke="${palette.muted}" stroke-width="0.35"/>`; // North, and a scale bar of 200 m. g += `<path d="M5 4 L6.4 9 L5 8.2 L3.6 9 Z" ${fill(palette.ink)}/>` + glyphs('N', 3.95, 10.2, 2.2, palette.ink, 0.3) + `<path d="M3 56.8 V57.8 H13 V56.8" ${line(palette.ink, 0.3)}/>` + glyphs('200 m', 14.4, 56, 2, palette.ink, 0.28); return sheet(w, MAP.height, `<g transform="translate(0 -3)">${g}</g>`); } const drawings = () => ({ 'tiles-cover': coverTiles(), 'tiles-band': bandTiles(), 'tiles-page': pageTiles(), tile: tileIcon(), routes: mapArt(), }); // #endregion // ─── 2 · Content ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── const markdown = String.raw`---Markdown sample · 84 lines · content.en.md
title: "Lisbon on Foot" subtitle: "Three walks through the old city" author: "Postext Cookbook" --- # Lisbon \\ on Foot {style="cover"} :::pagebreak # Before you set out {style="intro"} Lisbon climbs from the Tagus over seven steep hills, and in Alfama many of the streets are flights of steps. The three walks in this guide keep the climbs short. Each starts at a tram or metro stop, takes between 45 minutes and two hours with time to look around, and passes only public places. Wear shoes with some grip: the limestone paving is worn smooth and turns slippery after rain. Each walk has a colour, and the tab on the edge of its pages is printed in it: terracotta for Alfama, yellow for the Baixa, teal for Belém. ::resource{id="routes"} :::paragraphs{style="colophon"} Set in Albert Sans, DM Serif Display and Asap Condensed (SIL Open Font License). Text, map and tiles: CC BY 4.0. ::: # Alfama {style="alfama" route="From the cathedral to the Pantheon"} :chip[1.4 km]{style="fact"} :chip[1 h 30]{style="fact"} :chip[Uphill start]{style="fact"} :chip[Tram 28]{style="fact"} Alfama is the oldest quarter of Lisbon and the one that came through the earthquake of 1755 best, so its lanes still follow the medieval plan. The walk climbs from the cathedral to two viewpoints, then follows the ridge east to São Vicente and the dome of the Pantheon. The steepest part is the first 400 metres. ### Sé de Lisboa Work on the cathedral began in 1147, the year Afonso Henriques took the city from the Moors, on the site of the main mosque. With its two squat towers and battlements it looks as much like a fort as a church. Earthquakes in 1344 and 1755 brought down parts of it, and a restoration in the twentieth century removed later additions to bring back the Romanesque front you see today. Stand across the street to take in the rose window above the door, then watch for tram 28 grinding round the corner of Rua Augusto Rosa. ### Miradouro de Santa Luzia Follow the tram tracks uphill for about 400 metres. The terrace beside the small church of Santa Luzia looks over the roofs of Alfama to the river, with the dome of the Pantheon and the towers of São Vicente on the ridge to the left. A pergola shades the benches, and in summer it is covered in bougainvillea. :::callout{type="dontmiss"} The two tile panels on the south wall of the church. One shows Praça do Comércio before 1755, with the royal palace on the waterfront; the other shows Christian soldiers storming the castle in 1147. Walk 2 starts in the square the first panel shows. ::: ### Largo das Portas do Sol A few steps on, this square takes its name from the Sun Gate, one of the gates in the Moorish city wall. The statue is São Vicente, patron saint of Lisbon, holding a boat with two ravens. The story goes that ravens kept watch over his body when it was brought to the city by sea in 1173; the boat and the birds are on Lisbon’s coat of arms to this day. The view here is wider than at Santa Luzia: the whole of Alfama drops away below you to the docks, and on a clear day you can see the far shore of the estuary. ### São Vicente de Fora Follow the tram tracks east along the ridge for about 500 metres. The white church ahead is Saint Vincent Outside the Walls, named for a monastery founded here in the twelfth century beyond the city wall. The building you see went up between 1582 and 1629. Its twin towers frame a plain front. The cloisters inside are lined with eighteenth-century azulejos, among them a series of panels illustrating the fables of La Fontaine, and the monastery holds the tombs of the Braganza kings, who ruled Portugal from 1640 to 1910. ### Panteão Nacional Walk down through Campo de Santa Clara, where the Feira da Ladra flea market fills the square on Tuesdays and Saturdays, to the domed church of Santa Engrácia. Building began in 1682 and the dome was finished only in 1966, which is why the Portuguese still call a job that never ends *obras de Santa Engrácia*. Presidents, writers and the fado singer Amália Rodrigues are buried here. Stairs inside the church climb to a terrace that runs right round the dome, with the river on one side and the roofs of Alfama on the other. From the Pantheon, Santa Apolónia station is five minutes downhill. :::paragraphs{style="onward"} **Walk 2 · Baixa.** It starts at Praça do Comércio, a little over a kilometre west along the river. ::: # Baixa {style="baixa" route="From the river to Rossio"} :chip[0.8 km]{style="fact"} :chip[45 min]{style="fact"} :chip[Flat]{style="fact"} :chip[Metro Terreiro do Paço]{style="fact"} An earthquake, a tsunami and five days of fire destroyed the lower town on 1 November 1755. The Marquis of Pombal rebuilt it on a grid of straight streets, in houses framed with timber against the next tremor. ### Praça do Comércio Until 1755 this was Terreiro do Paço, the yard of the royal palace, and many Lisboetas still call it that. Arcades run round three sides; on the fourth, the marble steps of Cais das Colunas go down into the river. ### Arco da Rua Augusta The arch on the north side was finished in 1873: Glory crowns Genius and Valour at the top, over statues of Vasco da Gama and the Marquis of Pombal. Beyond it, Rua Augusta runs north between Rua do Ouro and Rua da Prata, named for the goldsmiths and the silversmiths. ### Rossio Rua Augusta ends in Praça Dom Pedro IV, known to everyone as Rossio. The black and white waves of its paving were laid in the 1840s.`; // content.<lang>.md, inlined by the Cookbook // Every drawing is an SVG resource, sized in mm at 10 px per mm (as sheet() draws them). const svg = (id, w, h, more) => ({ id, typeId: 'map', kind: 'svg', createdAt: 0, updatedAt: 0, svg: { fileId: `${id}.svg`, width: w * 10, height: h * 10 }, ...more }); // #region map: the map in the text, keyed by swatches of the walks' colours in its note const map = svg('routes', MAP.width, MAP.height, { placement: { position: 'here' }, ...t({ en: { caption: 'The three walks. The numbered pins are the stops in the text.', note: ':swatch{color="alfama"} Walk 1, Alfama · :swatch{color="baixa"} Walk 2, Baixa · ' + ':swatch{color="belem"} Walk 3, Belém, 6 km west (inset)', altText: 'Map of central Lisbon north of the river: the yellow route runs from the ' + 'waterfront up the Baixa grid to Rossio; the terracotta route climbs east from the ' + 'cathedral through Alfama. An inset shows the teal Belém route.', }, es: { caption: 'Los tres paseos. Los pines numerados son las paradas del texto.', note: ':swatch{color="alfama"} Paseo 1, Alfama · :swatch{color="baixa"} Paseo 2, Baixa · ' + ':swatch{color="belem"} Paseo 3, Belém, 6 km al oeste (en el detalle)', altText: 'Plano del centro de Lisboa al norte del río: la ruta amarilla sube desde el ' + 'muelle por la cuadrícula de la Baixa hasta el Rossio; la terracota sube hacia el este ' + 'desde la catedral por Alfama. En un detalle, la ruta verde azulada de Belém.', } }) }); // #endregion // The other drawings are used by the designs, never placed in the text. const resources = [map, svg('tiles-cover', TRIM.width, 112), svg('tiles-band', 3 * TILE, BAND), svg('tiles-page', TRIM.width, TRIM.height), svg('tile', TILE, TILE)]; // ─── 3 · Fonts ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // Every face the design uses, loaded before the first build (gotcha: fonts-first). const FONTS = { 'Albert Sans': ['400', '400i'], // text, the route under a walk's name 'DM Serif Display': ['400'], // walk names, stops, the cover 'Asap Condensed': ['600', '700'], // labels, chips, tabs, folios, captions }; // ─── 4 · Build & show ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── await loadFonts(FONTS, markdown); for (const [id, art] of Object.entries(drawings())) await loadSvg(`${id}.svg`, art); const doc = await buildWithFonts(() => buildDocument({ markdown, resources }, config()), markdown); showPages(doc, { title: t({ en: 'Lisbon on Foot', es: 'Lisboa a pie' }) });Kit · core, fonts, viewer, images: the same in every recipe · 270 lines
// ─── Kit ── helpers shared by every Cookbook recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ───── // ─── Kit · core v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ───────── function mm(value) { return { value, unit: 'mm' }; } function pt(value) { return { value, unit: 'pt' }; } function em(value) { return { value, unit: 'em' }; } /** The sample language's string: t({ en: 'Figure', es: 'Figura' }). */ function t(strings) { return strings[LANG] ?? Object.values(strings)[0]; } /** A file in this recipe's assets folder, served from the Postext repo by jsDelivr. */ function asset(file) { return `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/drnachio/postext@main/cookbook/${RECIPE}/assets/${file}`; } // ─── Kit · fonts v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ──────── // Postext measures text with the faces the browser has loaded, and caches the // widths, so every face must be ready before the first build. Faces come from // Fontsource: the same static files the PDF embeds, so screen and PDF agree. /** faces = { 'Family Name': ['400', '400i', '700'] }. `text` is the sample: * letters beyond Latin-1 (č, ł, ő…) also load the latin-ext files. With * `optional`, a face Fontsource does not ship is skipped instead of failing. * Resolves to the number of faces added. */ async function loadFonts(faces, text = '', { optional = false } = {}) { kitStatus('Loading fonts…'); const ranges = { latin: 'U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,' + 'U+2000-206F,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD', 'latin-ext': 'U+0100-02BA,U+02BD-02C5,U+02C7-02CC,U+02CE-02D7,U+02DD-02FF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,' + 'U+1D00-1DBF,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20C0,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF', }; const subsets = /[Ā-˿Ḁ-ỿ]/.test(text) ? ['latin', 'latin-ext'] : ['latin']; const jobs = []; let added = 0; for (const [family, specs] of Object.entries(faces)) { const id = fontsourceId(family); const meta = optional ? await fontsourceMeta(family) : null; for (const spec of new Set(specs)) { const weight = parseInt(spec, 10); const style = spec.endsWith('i') ? 'italic' : 'normal'; if (hasFace(family, weight, style)) continue; if (optional && !(meta?.weights.includes(weight) && meta.styles.includes(style))) continue; for (const subset of subsets) { const url = `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fontsource/${id}@5/files/${id}-${subset}-${weight}-${style}.woff2`; const face = new FontFace(family, `url(${url}) format('woff2')`, { weight: String(weight), style, unicodeRange: ranges[subset] }); jobs.push(face.load().then((ready) => { document.fonts.add(ready); added++; }, () => { if (subset === 'latin' && !optional) throw new Error(`Fontsource has no ${family} ${weight} ${style}`); })); } } } await Promise.all(jobs).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; }); return added; } /** Runs `build` (a buildDocument or buildBundle call) and checks the faces * the pages use. A regular face missing from FONTS is loaded with a warning; * bold and italic variants are loaded when the family ships them. Then the * measurement caches are cleared and the build runs again. */ async function buildWithFonts(build, text = '') { const tried = new Set(); for (let round = 0; round < 3; round++) { kitStatus('Laying out…'); await new Promise(requestAnimationFrame); // let the status paint first const result = await Promise.resolve().then(build).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; }); const wanted = { base: {}, variants: {} }; for (const { font, base } of [result].flat().flatMap(fontStringsOf)) { const { family, weight, style } = parseFont(font); const key = `${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 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
The composed script.js runs as it is: paste it into any page’s module script, or open the recipe on CodePen. Recipe folder on GitHub ↗
Variations
#Leave the blank verso unpainted
Without the field, page 6 keeps its tab: pages: 'all' prints it on the blank page too, in Walk 2’s yellow with a 2.
-const header = { elements: [...heads, ...tabs, ...blankPage] };
+const header = { elements: [...heads, ...tabs] };#Add the third walk
WALKS already holds Belém’s colours and walkStyles its style, so the walk needs only its heading in the content. The walk opens on page 9, after a blank page 8 painted teal with a white 3.
+# Belém {style="belem" route="From the monastery to the tower"}
+
+Tram 15 runs from Praça da Figueira to Belém along the river.Pitfalls
Pitfall
A page takes the header of the last section that starts on it
When two heading styles start on one page, the page takes the header, footer and palette of the last one. A separator blank belongs to the chapter before it, parity padding to the chapter after it. Running heads per section →
Pitfall
A section or part palette does not recolour chips
In postext 1.4.1 the palette of a heading style or a part recolours the text, the boxes and the design elements of its pages, but a chip keeps the colours of its chipStyles entry. A chip linked to an entry the section overrides shows the document's value on every page. Set chips in colours no section changes, such as ink on paper, or give each section a chip style of its own. Inline chips →
Pitfall
A swapped palette misses design elements and the reference colour
postext 1.4.1 reads colorPalette into the text styles (body, headings, lists, captions, tables, boxes) but not into the elements of headers, footers, openers and part pages, nor into bodyText.referenceColor: they keep the hex written beside their paletteId. When you swap the palette, for a dark screen edition or a retint, rewrite every linked colour from colorPalette before the build. Semantic colour palette →
Pitfall
A heading style inherits its level's page break
A headingStyles entry takes every field it leaves out from its heading level, breakBefore included. A contents page or a colophon styled on an H1 after a :::pagebreak inherits parity 'odd' and lands behind a blank page. Give such a style breakBefore: { enabled: false }. Heading styles →
Pitfall
Any headings object switches off the H1 page break
By default an H1 breaks to a recto (always-odd), but passing any headings object resets that default, so chapters run on and span: 'page' does nothing. Restate headings.levels[0].breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity } in every config. Chapters that open on a recto →
Pitfall
Container-relative negative offsets render nothing
Auto-width design text is clamped to its container, so a negative offset from the container pushes it out and nothing renders. Anchor such elements to the page or the bleed with explicit mm offsets, or give them a fixed width. Anchoring design elements →
Pitfall
Page 1 is a recto: plan pages with physical numbers
Page 1 is a right-hand page and page 2 the first verso, so plan spreads with physical page numbers: an opener on an even page faces the odd page after it. Page and column breaks →
Pitfall
Ragged text is never hyphenated
Hyphenation applies to justified text only; ragged-right text breaks between words, so a narrow ragged column gets a deep rag. Justify the passage or widen the measure. Hyphenation and document language →
Pitfall
Ragged text is never checked for runts
optimalLineBreaking, avoidRunts, runtPenalty and runtMinCharacters act on the Knuth–Plass line breaker, which postext 1.4.1 runs for justified text only. A ragged paragraph is broken line by line and can end on one short word whatever those settings say. Read the last lines of ragged text and reword a paragraph that ends on a runt. Widows, orphans and runts →
Pitfall
Text inside an SVG <img> cannot use web fonts
An SVG is drawn as an image, and an image has no access to the page's web fonts, so its labels fall back to a system face. Outline the text, embed an @font-face subset in the SVG, or move the labels to the caption. Figures and tables as resources →
Pitfall
Load every face before layout
Layout measures text with the faces the browser has loaded and caches the widths, so a face that arrives after the first build leaves wrong line breaks and a PDF that no longer matches the screen. Load every weight and style first, and call clearMeasurementCache() before rebuilding when one arrives late. Fonts before layout →
- Page 6 exists because Walk 1 ends on page 5, a recto. A walk that ends on a verso leaves no blank page, and the next walk’s colour then shows only on its own pages.
- Before the first numbered walk,
{chapterNumber}is empty, so an element that prints it, such as the tab, needs a style there that leaves it out.
Credits
- Recipe
- Ignacio Ferro
- Text
- Original prose, CC BY 4.0
- Images
- The tiles, the map of the routes and its pins, drawn in code · Ignacio Ferro · CC BY 4.0
- Fonts
- Albert Sans (SIL OFL 1.1) · DM Serif Display (SIL OFL 1.1) · Asap Condensed (SIL OFL 1.1)


