Postext · Cookbook
Layouts set with Postext, from a chapter opener to a whole book. Each recipe puts its pages beside the script that sets them and explains the main settings.
115 recipes · 10 chapterstested with postext 1.4.1
Nº 064Workaround
Headings & openers
Letters run on without page breaks; each dateline comes from heading attributes, and paragraph styles set the salutation, the signature and a postscript.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose5 pp.
Nº 043Workaround
Type & text
Each poem is a frameless box with two columns: a fixed column break opens the English at its title, and :::space keeps each stanza level with its original.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePoetry5 pp.
Nº 068
Figures & images
Plates as heading styles built from a list, each filling its page to the trim; the storm plate runs across the gutter of a spread in two halves.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePhotobooks9 pp.
Trim sizes, mirrored margins, one, two and one-and-a-half columns, the baseline grid, flush columns and pages built to exact positions.
Nº 001
Page & grid
A column-and-a-half page whose outer column holds only floats: span 'side' figures and glosses stack there, and captionSide moves the other captions into it.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedTextbooks4 pp.
Nº 013
Page & grid
A mirrored two-column page whose text block is exactly 44 leads tall, so the body text sits on one grid across the gutter and the spine.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateAny genre3 pp.
Nº 027Workaround
Page & grid
A local weekly's front page and page 2 in two ruled columns, with page-wide headlines set as boxes and a four-column strip of briefs floated to the foot.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedNewspapers & newsletters2 pp.
Nº 042Workaround
Page & grid
A two-page allotment newsletter in column and a half: the lead fills the wide column and jumps to page 2; column breaks send tagged briefs to the narrow one.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateNewspapers & newsletters2 pp.
Nº 057
Page & grid
A one-page A4 CV whose plum sidebar is one box in a float-only left column, carried into the margins by header boxes, with job dates set flush right.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateSingle sheets & ephemera1 p.
Nº 058PDF
Page & grid
A two-page German quotation on A4. The subject line is the H1, and its design pins the letterhead, the address and the information block at form B’s positions.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateSingle sheets & ephemera2 pp.
Nº 059Workaround
Page & grid
A 600 × 800 mm conference poster: a title band over one page-wide box with three columns of nested panels, a heat map keyed by swatches and −4.2 °C at 150 pt.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedPapers & academic1 p.
Nº 075PDF
Page & grid
Chapter 1 of 三國演義 on a Taiwan 25開 page: 40 characters down 16 columns, a ruled 回目 opener, fore-edge heads, Chinese folios and spreads read right to left.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedFiction, drama & literary prose11 pp.
Nº 081PDF
Page & grid
Two founding documents of 1912 set vertically, bound on the right: two-digit numbers stand upright in one cell unaided, and :tcy and :upright mark the rest.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateTextbooks7 pp.
Nº 082WorkaroundPDF
Page & grid
A four-page notice on A4 to the national standard: 28 × 22 characters of 三号, a red letterhead, heads 一、（一）1.（1）, an annex and “— 1 —” folios.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateReports4 pp.
Nº 083WorkaroundPDF
Page & grid
Each Tang poem opens a tinted recto and Giles’s English the verso facing it: one heading style breaks to even pages, the other to odd ones.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePoetry10 pp.
Nº 084WorkaroundPDF
Page & grid
Two sheets of a 1912 Chinese paper set vertically: the body in two tiers with a rule between them, the telegrams in three, the lead headline down both.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateNewspapers & newsletters2 pp.
Nº 085WorkaroundPDF
Page & grid
Zhu Xi's commentary on the Analects set as a woodblock printed it: a leaf to a spread, a double frame, a rule between columns and the centre strip on the fold.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateTextbooks7 pp.
Nº 108PDF
Page & grid
An Arabic daily in locale 'ar': the first column is the right one, headlines span both, and the In brief strip sets three columns right to left.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateNewspapers & newsletters2 pp.
Nº 114WorkaroundPDF
Page & grid
Ibn ʿAqīl’s grammar commentary in the main column, glosses in the outer side column beside the passages they explain, all inside a double ruled frame.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateTextbooks6 pp.
Justification and hyphenation per language, verse set line by line, paragraph styles, chips, superscripts, subscripts and maths.
Nº 002WorkaroundPDF
Type & text
A two-column physics paper whose inline formulas and seven numbered equations are set by MathJax from the ?bundle build, and stay vector in the PDF.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedPapers & academic4 pp.
Nº 014
Type & text
Knuth–Plass breaking with word spaces held to 0.8–1.6 times normal, set beside a greedy control whose loose lines, lone lines and runts are marked from the VDT.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedMagazines & zines3 pp.
Nº 015Workaround
Type & text
Each line of verse is a paragraph whose turnovers hang 4 em in. Em spaces hold the 1918 indents, and :::space puts one line between stanzas.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePoetry8 pp.
Nº 016Workaround
Type & text
The opening of Marianela’s chapter I as a pocket edition: Spanish hyphenation, word spaces under 1.7×, no runts, a raised initial and Figura 1 on the map.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose5 pp.
Nº 028WorkaroundPDF
Type & text
A four-page chemistry report on A4 that marks formulas and units in the text with ~ and ^ and keeps TeX for the reaction and the equations.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedReports4 pp.
Nº 043Workaround
Type & text
Each poem is a frameless box with two columns: a fixed column break opens the English at its title, and :::space keeps each stanza level with its original.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePoetry5 pp.
Nº 044Workaround
Type & text
Milton’s Lycidas in the 1645 text: a script counts the lines and adds a side box after every fifth, and each note opens on its line number, set as a chip.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedPoetry9 pp.
Nº 060
Type & text
A Spanish primer unit for the letter M: syllables as chips in the colour of their vowel, and a grid of picture words with a watercolour in each cell.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateWorkbooks & exercises3 pp.
Nº 061
Type & text
A shooting script in Courier Prime 12 on US Letter, each speech a frameless callout padded to the dialogue block and each scene numbered in both margins.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateAny genre5 pp.
Nº 062Workaround
Type & text
George Herbert’s Easter Wings and The Altar set as centred body text, a paragraph to each line of verse, so the lengths of the lines draw the two figures.
Level 1 of 3: BasicPoetry4 pp.
Nº 074PDF
Type & text
Lu Xun’s “My Old Home” on a 大32开 page: 28 characters to the line, 28 lines to the page, GB line breaks, Kaiming punctuation and Han–Latin spacing.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose7 pp.
Nº 076
Type & text
Mono ruby in a Hong Kong first reader: {人之初|rén zhī chū} centres one pinyin syllable over each character, in Andika, inside a 28 pt line gap.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateTextbooks4 pp.
Nº 077PDF
Type & text
The Basic Annals of Xiang Yu with :name and :book marks, set down a right-bound page and then across one: the lines stand left of the names, then under them.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateTextbooks3 pp.
Nº 080PDF
Type & text
A Taiwan school reader set down the page: {守株|ㄕㄡˇ|ㄓㄨ} sets a zhuyin column right of each character, with pictures and notes in an upper tier.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedTextbooks4 pp.
Nº 104PDF
Type & text
Narcís Oller’s El transplantat, complete, as a 32-page pocket book: Catalan syllables by the IEC rules, l·l broken as il- | lusió, and an engraving per chapter.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose32 pp.
Nº 105PDF
Type & text
The opening of an Arabic novel on a 14 × 21 cm page: locale 'ar' sets the text right to left, binds the book on the right and prints ١٢ for its folios.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose7 pp.
Nº 106PDF
Type & text
An Arabic annual report with its English beside it: {dir=ltr} on each English block, :ltr[…] for Latin names in Arabic lines, a table set left to right.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateReports3 pp.
Nº 109PDF
Type & text
An Arabic chapter printed for Morocco: locale 'ar-MA' keeps the text right to left and bound on the right, and writes every generated number as 1, 2, 3.
Level 1 of 3: BasicManuals, guides & reference4 pp.
Nº 110PDF
Type & text
One :::verse block sets al-Mutanabbī’s forty-six bayts in two columns of hemistichs, each half stretched with kashidas to one width.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePoetry4 pp.
Nº 111
Type & text
A maqāma with a vowel on every letter, set at twice its size in leading so the marks of one line never meet those of the next.
Level 1 of 3: BasicFiction, drama & literary prose4 pp.
Band and photo openers, sunk and framed titles, side heads and hanging numbers, badges, datelines and one-off designed pages.
Nº 003
Headings & openers
An advancedDesign opener on the level-1 heading: a bleed band, the chapter number on its foot, and a kicker and standfirst from the heading's attributes.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedTextbooks4 pp.
Nº 004
Headings & openers
One advancedDesign opener sets a bleed photo and the heading's kicker, headline, standfirst and byline; two floated boxes and a chip end mark follow.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedMagazines & zines4 pp.
Nº 017Workaround
Headings & openers
One opener on level 1 and four heading styles named in the Markdown; each style swaps the accent colour, and some also change the margins, columns or folios.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedAny genre7 pp.
Nº 018Workaround
Headings & openers
Sections numbered 1.1 to 1.12 in an amber pill that widens with its number, four more levels beneath them, and a seventh made with a heading style.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateManuals, guides & reference3 pp.
Nº 029
Headings & openers
An A3 lecture poster whose elements hang from the bleed, the page, their slot or one another, and a second sheet that frames each element and tags thirteen.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateSingle sheets & ephemera2 pp.
Nº 045
Headings & openers
A competition brief whose section titles stand in a margin channel on the text's baselines, with subsection numbers hung in the gutter and run-in heads in red.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedReports5 pp.
Nº 063PDF
Headings & openers
End-of-course certificates drawn by one heading style: a guilloche frame in its header, a seal and signature lines in its footer, the name in its opener.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateSingle sheets & ephemera3 pp.
Nº 064Workaround
Headings & openers
Letters run on without page breaks; each dateline comes from heading attributes, and paragraph styles set the salutation, the signature and a postscript.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose5 pp.
Nº 065
Headings & openers
Dom Casmurro as a pocket book: short chapters run on under heads drawn in the column, and no page break strands a line or a head.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose7 pp.
Nº 066
Headings & openers
One heading style opens every chapter; each heading names its vignette and its italic summary in attributes, which the opener paints.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose5 pp.
Nº 112PDF
Headings & openers
A level template writes each night as الليلة and a feminine ordinal, الليلة الأولى, الثانية, الثالثة, so the Markdown never carries a number.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose10 pp.
Verso and recto heads, folios, filters by page role and parity, thumb tabs that move or change colour, and painted blank pages.
Nº 005Workaround
Running heads & folios
Header elements filtered by parity and page role: book title on versos, essay title cut short on rectos, folio tabs in the margin, a drop folio on openers.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose5 pp.
Nº 046
Running heads & folios
A loop makes one heading style per letter, and each style’s header prints that letter’s navy tab one step lower on the fore-edge, over a pale index.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedManuals, guides & reference4 pp.
Nº 086PDF
Running heads & folios
Four pages of a Kangxi Dictionary reader in pinyin order: {firstMark.h2} and {lastMark.h2} print each page’s first and last headword in its running head.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateManuals, guides & reference4 pp.
Nº 047
Running heads & folios
A pocket guide with one heading style per walk, whose palette recolours the fore-edge tab, the stop numbers, the box’s tint and the blank verso before the walk.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedManuals, guides & reference7 pp.
Covers, front matter, contents generated from the headings, parts in colour, back matter and books built chapter by chapter.
Nº 006PDF
Book structure
The cover and prelims are unnumbered headings counted in lower-case roman; :::numbering restarts the count at 1 on the recto where the novel opens.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedFiction, drama & literary prose14 pp.
Nº 007PDF
Book structure
buildBundle sets five Markdown files as one book: each chapter opens on a recto, and page, chapter and figure numbers run on from file to file.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedManuals, guides & reference11 pp.
Nº 019
Book structure
A pocket field guide where each :::part sets one palette entry, and its divider, painted verso, thumb tabs, field marks and contents row print in that colour.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedManuals, guides & reference10 pp.
Nº 030Workaround
Book structure
Three essays on walking whose headings carry author, year and magazine: the opener prints all three; the verso running heads and the contents print the author.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose9 pp.
Nº 031WorkaroundPDF
Book structure
The last pages of a thesis in black and white: a lettered appendix, a two-column glossary, APA references and an index built from marks in the text.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedPapers & academic7 pp.
Nº 072PDF
Book structure
Terms marked where the text discusses them, printed by :::index in two columns with the pages buildBundle finds for them, ranges and cross-references.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedTextbooks10 pp.
Nº 073PDF
Book structure
Marks with index="names" feed an index of people and the rest an index of subjects; :::index prints each in two columns, and the build settles the pages.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateTextbooks7 pp.
Nº 079PDF
Book structure
One set of :index marks in two editions of a 紅樓夢 reader: index.groupBy files the names under pinyin initials in zh-Hans and under stroke counts in zh-Hant.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose16 pp.
Nº 087PDF
Book structure
A doctoral chapter whose [@key, p. 33] citations become APA 7 through citeproc-js, with the reference list built from a BibTeX block.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePapers & academic3 pp.
Nº 088PDF
Book structure
A workshop paper in two columns: a title block across the page, IEEE citations with [2]–[4] ranges, Section II references and a compact numbered list.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePapers & academic2 pp.
Nº 089PDF
Book structure
A four-page history essay whose [@key, 87] citations become Chicago notes at the foot of the page: full the first time, short after that, with a bibliography.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePapers & academic4 pp.
Nº 090PDF
Book structure
A two-column Chinese journal article: [@key] citations print as superscript [1] and [2–4], the references carry [M], [J], [D] and [EB/OL].
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePapers & academic2 pp.
Nº 091PDF
Book structure
A vertical chapter in Traditional characters, bound on the right, whose GB/T 7714 note citations are set as 夾注 inside the column.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedAny genre3 pp.
Nº 092PDF
Book structure
A bicycle owner's manual whose cross-references say "see section 3.2 on page 3", forward and back, with every number and page taken from the layout.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateManuals, guides & reference4 pp.
Nº 093
Book structure
One short essay with six citations, built in APA 7, Chicago author-date, IEEE and ISO 690: the style setting is the only thing that changes.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePapers & academic4 pp.
Nº 094PDF
Book structure
A three-chapter solar handbook whose text writes @fig:sun, @tbl:loads and @sec:array-size, and buildBundle prints each number and page across chapters.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedManuals, guides & reference9 pp.
Nº 095PDF
Book structure
A clinical trial report on A4 in two columns: raised citation numbers, a numbered Vancouver reference list and DOIs that open as links in the PDF.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePapers & academic3 pp.
Nº 096PDF
Book structure
A literary essay whose [@key, 48] citations become MLA 9 author-page references, with a block quotation and a Works Cited list built from CSL-YAML data.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePapers & academic4 pp.
Nº 097
Book structure
A seminar reading list whose references are a Zotero BibTeX export pasted as is, cited in Chicago author-date, with nocite for works the text never cites.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateTextbooks2 pp.
Nº 098PDF
Book structure
Three essays by three contributors, each a document of its own in buildBundle, each closing on a Chicago author-date list of only the works it cites.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedPapers & academic10 pp.
Nº 099PDF
Book structure
A four-page case comment whose [@robinson2018, para 21] citations become OSCOLA footnotes: cases in italics, neutral citations, ibid and (n 1) cross-references.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePapers & academic4 pp.
Nº 107PDF
Book structure
An Arabic journal article: notes «(١)» numbered per page, CSL citations among them in the Arabic locale, and an index sorted without the article ال.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedPapers & academic5 pp.
Nº 113PDF
Book structure
Front matter folioed أ ب ج د, the text from ١, the editor’s notes numbered (١) again on every page, and an index that sorts names without their article ال.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedTextbooks11 pp.
Callout families, boxes that split, float or stay pinned, footnotes, endnotes and margin glosses, worksheets, recipe cards and code listings.
Nº 008
Boxes & notes
Six kinds of textbook box in three colours, told apart by a stripe with an icon, a badge, a numbered tab, a strip of pictograms or a marker outside the frame.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateTextbooks3 pp.
Nº 071PDFLive
Boxes & notes
Markdown [^id] markers become numbered notes at the foot of the citing column, with switches for one column, chapter-end notes and continuous numbers.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose3 pp.
Nº 020
Boxes & notes
A short preprocessor numbers the [^1] notes and gathers them under a Notes heading, whose style sets them on a page of their own in two columns.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePapers & academic5 pp.
Nº 021
Boxes & notes
A lab worksheet in which the procedure box splits between two columns, the data sheet moves to the head of the next page and a badge is pinned to the foot.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedWorkbooks & exercises4 pp.
Nº 022
Boxes & notes
A four-page science worksheet: white answer boxes in pale green cards, 2 mm under each question and off the grid, with word banks and blanks made of chips.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateWorkbooks & exercises4 pp.
Nº 032
Boxes & notes
Alice’s mad tea-party as an annotated edition: green and red glosses in the outer margin, beside the lines they explain, each called by a letter in its colour.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedFiction, drama & literary prose3 pp.
Nº 033
Boxes & notes
Two cookbook pages with a white recipe card under a SERVES 4 tab: ingredients, tags and a checklist on the left, steps with 26 pt red numbers on the right.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateManuals, guides & reference2 pp.
Nº 048Workaround
Boxes & notes
A shell guide whose fenced code becomes dark listing boxes before the build, with bold and italic runs as syntax colours and keys set as keycap chips.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateManuals, guides & reference3 pp.
Nº 049Workaround
Boxes & notes
A four-page history exam on US Letter, with bubbles and marks drawn as chips, questions numbered 1, a), i) and answer lines ruled by a table.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateWorkbooks & exercises4 pp.
Nº 050
Boxes & notes
A German kettle manual whose WARNUNG and VORSICHT boxes carry the warning triangle on a signal-coloured band, with German figure and table labels.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateManuals, guides & reference7 pp.
Nº 078WorkaroundPDF
Boxes & notes
A vertical Chinese commentary page: the manuscript's side comments folded into two red rows inside the line, head-margin comments in a tier above the text.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedFiction, drama & literary prose6 pp.
Numbered figures that float to their citation, facing plates, maps and rotated overviews, full-bleed spreads and single-ink artwork.
Nº 009Workaround
Figures & images
A two-column chapter with seven numbered figures: six float from their first :ref to the first slot their placement allows; one sits where ::resource puts it.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedTextbooks4 pp.
Nº 034Workaround
Figures & images
Each entry opens a verso and cites its plate in the commentary’s first sentence; the plate floats to the facing recto, 221 mm tall at the scan’s proportions.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedCatalogues8 pp.
Nº 051PDF
Figures & images
A four-page zine for a two-drum risograph: full-colour drawings print as tints of the pink, recoloured by the pen for the canvas and by renderToPdf in the PDF.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedMagazines & zines4 pp.
Nº 067
Figures & images
Maps with a numbering of their own and captions on a blue bar, a key of swatches in the maps' colours, and a sea chart turned sideways on page 3.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedManuals, guides & reference4 pp.
Nº 068
Figures & images
Plates as heading styles built from a list, each filling its page to the trim; the storm plate runs across the gutter of a spread in two halves.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediatePhotobooks9 pp.
Tables built from data: merged headers, splits with a repeated header, fills and swatch keys, pictures in cells, calendars and grids.
Nº 010WorkaroundPDF
Tables
Tables pasted as TSV, parsed with parseTSV and shaped with mergeCells, setAlignment and setCellBackground; a register map that splits across pages by itself.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedManuals, guides & reference4 pp.
Nº 035
Tables
A 38-crop sowing chart set in landscape on two pages of its own, a calendar computed from dates and a companion matrix, their cells filled from the palette.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedManuals, guides & reference4 pp.
Nº 036
Tables
A seed catalogue whose price list is a table read from TSV, with a painted seed packet in each variety's cell and the list split across a spread.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedCatalogues4 pp.
Nº 052Workaround
Tables
A bistro menu printed on both sides, with the prices set in borderless tables and a brass rule anchored to either side of each course head.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateSingle sheets & ephemera2 pp.
Nº 053
Tables
A two-day programme in schedule grids: mergeCells spans a plenary across the three rooms and a workshop over two slots, and each talk takes its track's colour.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedSingle sheets & ephemera6 pp.
Nº 069
Tables
A crossword and a word search built as tables from lines of letters: black squares and found words are cell fills, clue numbers are superscripts.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedWorkbooks & exercises5 pp.
Whole issues and editions, each using at least eight features on four pages or more.
Nº 023
Complete publications
A photo cover whose cover lines hang below the masthead, and contents generated with a coloured row per section. Each section is a part that opens no page.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedMagazines & zines6 pp.
Nº 037
Complete publications
An energy co-op's annual report in two justified columns that end on the same grid line, with a key-figures box across the page and a closing page cut level.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedReports5 pp.
Nº 038
Complete publications
The Awakening as a 140 × 216 mm trade paperback: a painted cover and a colophon with no running heads, then chapters sunk on rectos under an italic numeral.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose8 pp.
Nº 070Workaround
Complete publications
The opening of Wilde’s play as an acting edition. Names print in bold plum and directions in grey italic; the cast list is read from tab-separated lines.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose5 pp.
From a Markdown string to canvas, HTML and PDF: fonts, print-ready and tagged PDFs, screen editions, bundles, workers, diagnostics and live rebuilds.
Nº 011HTMLLive
Output & integration
Both editions come from one config: htmlViewer.overrides holds the dark screen design, and applyHtmlViewerOverrides merges it in before each HTML build.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedMagazines & zines4 pp.
Nº 012
Output & integration
A Markdown string with frontmatter is set as two-column magazine pages and painted on canvas, with six named colours in place of the default blue.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateMagazines & zines2 pp.
Nº 024WorkaroundPDF
Output & integration
An exhibition leaflet laid out with 3 mm of bleed and crop marks, exported as a CMYK PDF that takes its maps and floor plan from print masters.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedSingle sheets & ephemera4 pp.
Nº 025PDF
Output & integration
A recital programme exported to PDF. Each face is fetched once, for FontFace and for the PDF, and each heading becomes a bookmark.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateSingle sheets & ephemera4 pp.
Nº 026
Output & integration
A four-page type specimen whose first build names every face its pages use; the pen loads them, clears the width cache and builds again.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateCatalogues4 pp.
Nº 039PDF
Output & integration
A recycling guide exported as a tagged PDF/UA-1 file with alt text, table header cells, its language and linked contents; the preview draws the tags on page 3.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateReports4 pp.
Nº 040PDFBundle
Output & integration
A fictional metro's identity manual set in the brand's own font files, fetched once and reused by the layout, the PDF's font provider and a .postext bundle.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedManuals, guides & reference4 pp.
Nº 041PDFBundle
Output & integration
A two-sided DL leaflet written to a .postext file in code and laid out again from its bytes, with the faces, drawings and caption labels each edition carries.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateSingle sheets & ephemera2 pp.
Nº 054Live
Output & integration
Each colour in the config carries a palette id, so one function returns a fresh config that sets a festival programme in red, teal, violet or sand.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateSingle sheets & ephemera2 pp.
Nº 055Live
Output & integration
A newspaper galley proofed twice, with every fault the engine reports or the pen finds itself marked in red on the page and linked to its Markdown.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedNewspapers & newsletters2 pp.
Nº 056WorkaroundLive
Output & integration
Markdown beside a pocket page: a worker started from a blob sets the chapter with its own fonts, and each keystroke cancels the build in flight.
Level 3 of 3: AdvancedFiction, drama & literary prose9 pp.
Nº 100Live
Output & integration
createFolioFromDocument from the postext-folio package opens a laid-out chapter as a cloth-bound book on a walnut desk, styled by config.folio.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateFiction, drama & literary prose4 pp.
Nº 101Live
Output & integration
Each leaf of a paper merchant's stock book sits in a :::paper fence, and postext-folio draws it with that stock's shade, weight, surface and stiffness.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateCatalogues12 pp.
Nº 102Live
Output & integration
Two :::paper fences put a salmon card on the outer sheet of an eight-page zine, and postext-folio shows it saddle-stitched round newsprint pages.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateMagazines & zines8 pp.
Nº 103Live
Output & integration
A form of every config.folio setting drives one postext-folio viewer through setAppearance: paper, binding, covers, desk, light and tilt change in place.
Level 2 of 3: IntermediateManuals, guides & reference10 pp.
Nº 115EPUB
Output & integration
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Level 3 of 3: AdvancedFiction, drama & literary prose14 pp.
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