In breve
Un capitolo di un manuale di biologia con sei tipi di riquadri, come avvertenze e note di laboratorio. Ogni tipo ha un colore e un simbolo propri, così gli studenti li distinguono a colpo d’occhio.
Che cosa comporrai
Il capitolo 2 di Living Matter, un manuale di biologia per la scuola secondaria superiore su una pagina di 210 × 280 mm, si apre sotto il disegno di una cellula tagliata dall’angolo superiore della pagina, con il numero del capitolo nel nucleo. Seguono sei tipi di riquadro in tre colori, ciascuno con un segno proprio, così uno studente distingue un obiettivo da un’avvertenza prima di leggerlo. Il magenta segna gli obiettivi di apprendimento, composti su una banda che contiene un bersaglio, e l’autoverifica, che ha una tessera con la spunta fuori dalla cornice. Il verde segna il consiglio di studio, composto accanto a un filetto sottile sormontato da un badge a lampadina, e il riquadro di laboratorio con i suoi tre pittogrammi di sicurezza. L’avvertenza è ambra, con un badge di allerta sull’angolo esterno. BOX 2.1 è lavanda sotto una linguetta nera e una beuta. I termini in grassetto prendono il colore del loro riquadro, magenta in BOX 2.1.
Questa ricetta risponde a
- Come creo riquadri di nota, suggerimento o avvertenza con un’icona, una striscia colorata e angoli arrotondati?
- Come aggiungo una linguetta numerata («BOX 1-1»), un’icona d’angolo o un’icona a margine con un filetto?
- Come coloro i termini chiave (in grassetto o in corsivo) nel testo o dentro i riquadri?
La risposta breve
// box(id, hue, device) is the shared base: the hue colours the title, bullets and key terms.
const TAB = 5, BADGE = 7.4; // in mm: the tab's height (and offset), the warning badge's size
const calloutStyles = [
// The first style is also the one a missing or misspelt type falls back to.
box('objectives', 'band', { title: t({ en: 'In this chapter', es: 'En este capítulo' }),
background: col('tintBand'), stripe: { enabled: true, width: mm(7.5), color: col('band') },
icon: icon('target', 5) }), // on a side stripe (left by default) the icon is centred on it
box('feature', 'band', { background: col('mist'),
titleStyle: { fontFamily: 'Lexend', fontSize: pt(10.5), color: col('ink'), gap: mm(1.6) },
// Printed only where the fence has label="…": the tab, the flask beside it, a rule to them.
label: { fontFamily: LABEL, fontSize: pt(8), color: col('paper'), background: col('ink'),
position: 'top-left', // this verso's outer corner, above the badge ('top-right' by default)
height: mm(TAB), offset: mm(TAB), paddingX: mm(2.3), // offset = height: on the top edge
icon: { resourceId: 'flask', width: mm(4.4), gap: mm(1.2) },
rule: { enabled: true, color: col('ink'), width: pt(1.2) } } }),
box('warning', 'warnInk', { background: col('tintWarn'), borderRadius: mm(1.4),
border: { enabled: true, color: col('warn'), width: pt(0.75) },
// The badge hangs half past the outer corner: sides of half badge + GAP align the title.
padding: { top: mm(2.8), right: mm(BADGE / 2 + GAP), bottom: mm(3.2),
left: mm(BADGE / 2 + GAP) },
icon: icon('caution', BADGE, { position: 'corner', cornerSide: 'outer' }) }),
]; // straight into config(), followed by the 'more' styles
Ingredienti
- Funzionalità
- RiquadriLinguette numerate dei riquadriIcone dei riquadri e badge d’angoloColonna segnaletica accanto a un riquadroColonne in un riquadro o nel testoRiquadri a tutta larghezzaRiquadri flottantiGrassetto, corsivo e i loro coloriTavolozza di colori semanticaAperture progettateFascia di capitolo a tutta larghezzaImmagini nei progetti di paginaAttributi dei titoliA capo nei titoliTestatine e folioMargini speculariFigure e tabelle come risorseCitazioni che collocano le figureCollocazione delle figurePagine su un canvas
- Tipo
- Noto Serif, Lexend, Barlow Semi Condensed (SIL OFL 1.1)
- Risorse
- Nessuna: ogni immagine è disegnata nel codice
Preparazione
#1 · Dai un colore a ogni tipo di riquadro
const palette = { ink: '#1f2430', paper: '#ffffff', // text; type on stripes and tabs
band: '#ab2e78', tintBand: '#fae3ef', // the chapter's magenta: opener, objectives, self-check
tip: '#25734a', tintTip: '#e2f0e7', // study tips and lab work
warn: '#e39422', tintWarn: '#fcefd8', warnInk: '#94540a', // frame and badge; tint; its type
mist: '#e8e3f0', rule: '#dccfd8', muted: '#675e66' }; // feature box; lines in drawings; heads
const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id], model: 'hex', paletteId: id });
// The engine's defaults link to 'main-color': point it at the band, so nothing prints blue.
const colorPalette = Object.entries({ ...palette, 'main-color': palette.band })
.map(([id, hex]) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } }));
Sei tipi di riquadro condividono tre tinte: magenta per gli obiettivi e l’autoverifica, verde per il consiglio di studio e il laboratorio, ambra per l’avvertenza. BOX 2.1 ha un fondo lavanda e usa il magenta per i termini chiave. Ogni tinta ha una variante pallida per i fondi, e ogni impostazione di colore rimanda a una voce della palette, quindi cambiare una tinta significa modificare un solo valore. Un testo così piccolo richiede un contrasto di 4,5:1. Il magenta sulla lavanda arriva a 4,9:1, ma l’ambra sul fondo dell’avvertenza solo a 2,2:1, quindi l’avvertenza riserva l’ambra a cornice e badge e compone titolo e termini chiave in warnInk, un ambra più scuro a 5,2:1.
#2 · Condividi tutto il resto
const box = (id, hue, device) => ({ id, marginTop: pt(LEAD), marginBottom: pt(LEAD / 2),
padding: { top: mm(2.8), right: mm(3.4), bottom: mm(3.2), left: mm(3.4) },
titleStyle: { fontFamily: LABEL, fontSize: pt(8.5), color: col(hue), // bold by default
textTransform: 'uppercase', letterSpacing: pt(1.4), gap: mm(GAP) },
body: { fontFamily: LABEL, fontSize: pt(9.6), lineHeight: pt(12.6), color: col('ink'),
boldColor: col(hue), textAlign: 'left', firstLineIndent: pt(0), paragraphSpacing: true },
lists: { color: col(hue), gap: mm(2.2), itemSpacing: pt(2.4) }, // bullets and numbers
...device }); // the kind's title, fill and device: its spread wins over the base
// An SVG or bitmap resource, fitted into a square of that size (width × size with `width`).
const icon = (id, size, more) => ({ kind: 'resource', resourceId: id, size: mm(size), ...more });
box() contiene le impostazioni che ogni riquadro condivide: margini, padding, caratteri del titolo e del testo, spaziatura degli elenchi. Il suo argomento hue colora il titolo, i punti elenco e i numeri, e i tratti in grassetto. body.boldColor rende fluid mosaic model magenta negli obiettivi e cell wall bruno ambra nell’avvertenza; il grassetto nel testo corrente resta in inchiostro (tipografia dentro un riquadro). Dichiarare calloutStyles sostituisce l’unico stile che il motore include, un riquadro grigio chiamato note. Un recinto il cui type manca o è scritto male prende il primo stile, quindi l’elenco si apre con gli obiettivi, che ogni capitolo ha.
#3 · Banda, linguetta e badge
Il codice è nella risposta breve qui sopra. La banda degli obiettivi è larga 7,5 mm e il suo bersaglio 5 mm, così l’icona sta dentro il colore con spazio da entrambi i lati. L’offset della linguetta è uguale alla sua height, il che fa poggiare la linguetta sul bordo superiore del riquadro, lontano dal titolo. 'top-left' è l’angolo esterno di questo verso; la beuta segue la linguetta, e il filetto corre lungo il bordo superiore dalla beuta all’angolo opposto. position: 'corner' fa sporgere il badge dell’avvertenza di metà della sua larghezza oltre il bordo, e cornerSide: 'outer' lo manda dal lato del margine esterno, a sinistra su questo verso. Da quel lato il motore rientra il titolo per lasciar libero il badge, a meno che il padding non copra già metà del badge più lo spazio del titolo, quindi l’avvertenza ha un padding di BADGE / 2 + GAP su entrambi i lati e il suo titolo si allinea al testo. Solo questo riquadro ha un borderRadius: è l’unico con una cornice, e un raggio di 1,4 mm ne ammorbidisce gli angoli. Un raggio su un riquadro con banda arrotonderebbe insieme anche gli angoli esterni della banda (stili dei riquadri).
#4 · Altri tre segni
const BULB = 6.4; // the study tip's badge in mm: the text clears it
const moreStyles = [
box('tip', 'tip', { title: t({ en: 'Study tip', es: 'Para recordar' }),
backgroundEnabled: false, stripe: { enabled: true, width: pt(2.5), color: col('tip') },
// A stripe narrower than its icon: the badge sits on it at the top and hides it there.
padding: { top: mm(0.6), right: mm(0), bottom: mm(0.6), left: mm(BULB / 2 + 2) },
icon: icon('bulb', BULB) }),
box('safety', 'tip', { background: col('tintTip'), marginTop: pt(4), // under its heading
icon: icon('safety', 7, { width: mm(24.5), align: 'center' }) }), // 3 pictograms, 1 image
box('check', 'band', { background: col('tintBand'),
// Outside the frame: [marker][rule][gap][box], the rule as tall as the box.
marker: { kind: 'resource', resourceId: 'check', size: mm(7), align: 'top', gap: mm(3),
rule: { enabled: true, color: col('band'), width: pt(0.75) } } }),
];
La banda del consiglio di studio è larga 2,5 pt contro un badge a lampadina di 6,4 mm, così si stampa come un filetto sottile con il badge sopra la sua estremità superiore; un padding sinistro di metà badge più 2 mm tiene il testo lontano dalla lampadina. icon.width adatta un’immagine a un riquadro largo invece che quadrato, così i tre pittogrammi di sicurezza, disegnati come un’unica immagine di 24,5 mm, formano la colonna dell’icona del riquadro di laboratorio, centrata sul suo testo. Il segno dell’autoverifica sta fuori dalla cornice, nell’ordine segno, filetto, spazio, riquadro. La sua tessera quadrata su un filetto di 0,75 pt la distingue dal consiglio di studio, il cui badge è rotondo. Il recinto aggiunge span="page" placement="bottom" per far flottare l’autoverifica al piede di pagina 29.
#5 · Le icone sono risorse
const svgResource = (id, width, height, extra) => ({ id, typeId: 'figure', kind: 'svg',
svg: { fileId: `${id}.svg`, width, height }, createdAt: 0, updatedAt: 0, ...extra });
const pageTop = { position: 'top', span: 'page' }; // a 'top' float opens the page after its :ref
const resources = [
// Uncited, so never placed as figures: the box styles and the opener use them by id.
...['target', 'bulb', 'caution', 'check'].map((id) => svgResource(id, 240, 240)),
svgResource('flask', 200, 240), svgResource('safety', 760, 240), svgResource('cell', 2000, 2000),
svgResource('mosaic', 3480, 1240, { placement: pageTop, caption: t({
en: 'The fluid mosaic: magenta phospholipids, green proteins, an amber carrier with its '
+ 'glucose, grey cholesterol, amber sugars.', // one line: the page is wide
es: 'El mosaico fluido: fosfolípidos magenta, proteínas verdes, transportadora ámbar con su '
+ 'glucosa, colesterol gris, azúcares ámbar.' }),
altText: t({ en: 'A cell membrane in section', es: 'Una membrana celular en sección' }) }),
svgResource('fusion', 1800, 500, { placement: { position: 'here' }, caption: t({
en: 'Mouse proteins in green, human proteins in magenta (the red dye): the two cells, the '
+ 'hybrid just after fusion and the same hybrid 40 minutes later.',
es: 'En verde, las proteínas de ratón; en magenta, las humanas (el colorante rojo): las dos '
+ 'células, el híbrido recién fusionado y el mismo híbrido 40 minutos después.' }),
altText: t({ en: 'Two cells fusing into a hybrid', es: 'Dos células que se fusionan' }) }),
svgResource('osmosis', 3480, 860, { placement: pageTop, caption: t({
en: 'Red blood cells in a hypertonic, an isotonic and a hypotonic solution. Arrows show the '
+ 'net flow of water.',
es: 'Glóbulos rojos en una disolución hipertónica, una isotónica y una hipotónica. Las flechas '
+ 'indican el flujo neto de agua.' }),
altText: t({ en: 'Blood cells in three solutions', es: 'Glóbulos rojos en tres medios' }) }),
];
Ogni icona, la beuta accanto alla linguetta e la cellula dell’apertura sono risorse SVG dichiarate con il contenuto e registrate per id di file. Uno stile le nomina per id di risorsa, e poiché il testo non le cita mai, nessuna diventa una figura numerata. Glifi come ✓ o ☞ sarebbero più brevi da scrivere, ma i file latin di Fontsource che le pagine caricano non li hanno: il canvas li prenderebbe in prestito da un font di sistema, e un PDF li perderebbe. Nemmeno i disegni portano parole: sono le didascalie a nominare i colori, quindi un disegno serve entrambe le edizioni.
#6 · Apri il capitolo con una cellula
const text = (id, content, family, size, color, placement, extra) => ({ kind: 'text', id,
content, fontFamily: family, fontSize: pt(size), color: col(color), placement,
align: 'left', ...extra }); // an opener's texts wrap by default
const below = (id, y, width) => ({ anchor: { to: `#${id}`, edge: 'below' },
offset: { y: mm(y) }, size: { width: mm(width) } });
const chapter = t({ en: 'Chapter {chapterNumber}', es: 'Capítulo {chapterNumber}' });
const opener = { enabled: true, minHeight: mm(66), slot: { elements: [
{ kind: 'image', id: 'cell', resourceId: 'cell', placement: { anchor: { to: 'page',
edge: 'top-right' }, offset: { x: mm(58), y: mm(-71) }, size: { width: mm(150) } } },
text('numeral', '{chapterNumber}', 'Lexend', 118, 'paper', { anchor: { to: 'page',
edge: 'top-right' }, offset: { x: mm(-OUTER), y: mm(14) } },
{ fontWeight: 800, lineHeight: 1, align: 'right' }),
text('kicker', `${chapter} · {attr.unit}`, LABEL, 9, 'band', { anchor: { to: 'container',
edge: 'top-left' }, offset: { y: mm(3) } },
{ fontWeight: 700, letterSpacing: pt(1.8), textTransform: 'uppercase' }),
text('title', '{titleText}', 'Lexend', 34, 'ink', below('kicker', 2.5, 112),
{ fontWeight: 700, lineHeight: 1.04 }),
text('lead', '{attr.lead}', 'Noto Serif', 10.5, 'ink', below('title', 5, 98),
{ italic: true, lineHeight: 1.42 }),
] } };
La cellula è un elemento immagine ancorato all’angolo in alto a destra della pagina e spinto oltre, così si vede soprattutto il suo quarto in basso a sinistra, e il numerale sta nel nucleo. Entrambi restano dentro i 66 mm che minHeight riserva all’apertura. L’occhiello e il sommario vengono dalla riga del titolo, # Cells and \\ Membranes {unit="The cell" lead="…"}, e il \\ manda a capo il titolo solo nell’apertura.
La ricetta completa
// ═══ Postext Cookbook · Nº 008 · A family of textbook boxes ═══════════════════════ // https://postext.dev/en/cookbook/textbook-box-family // Code: MIT · Text: original (CC BY 4.0) · Drawings and icons: generated in code (CC BY 4.0) // Fonts: Noto Serif, Lexend, Barlow Semi Condensed (SIL OFL 1.1) · Needs postext ≥ 1.25.0 import { buildDocumentWithFonts, prepareFonts, renderPageToCanvas, registerResourceImage, } from 'https://esm.sh/postext'; const LANG = 'en'; // @lang: the language of the sample document ('en' | 'es') const RECIPE = 'textbook-box-family'; // ─── 1 · Design ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // #region palette: three hues for six kinds of box; everything links to an entry const palette = { ink: '#1f2430', paper: '#ffffff', // text; type on stripes and tabs band: '#ab2e78', tintBand: '#fae3ef', // the chapter's magenta: opener, objectives, self-check tip: '#25734a', tintTip: '#e2f0e7', // study tips and lab work warn: '#e39422', tintWarn: '#fcefd8', warnInk: '#94540a', // frame and badge; tint; its type mist: '#e8e3f0', rule: '#dccfd8', muted: '#675e66' }; // feature box; lines in drawings; heads const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id], model: 'hex', paletteId: id }); // The engine's defaults link to 'main-color': point it at the band, so nothing prints blue. const colorPalette = Object.entries({ ...palette, 'main-color': palette.band }) .map(([id, hex]) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } })); // #endregion // Label face (box text and titles, tabs, captions, heads); leading in pt; outer margin in mm const LABEL = 'Barlow Semi Condensed', LEAD = 13.4, OUTER = 16, GAP = 1.5; // GAP: title gap, mm // #region base: what every box shares; each kind brings its colour and its one device const box = (id, hue, device) => ({ id, marginTop: pt(LEAD), marginBottom: pt(LEAD / 2), padding: { top: mm(2.8), right: mm(3.4), bottom: mm(3.2), left: mm(3.4) }, titleStyle: { fontFamily: LABEL, fontSize: pt(8.5), color: col(hue), // bold by default textTransform: 'uppercase', letterSpacing: pt(1.4), gap: mm(GAP) }, body: { fontFamily: LABEL, fontSize: pt(9.6), lineHeight: pt(12.6), color: col('ink'), boldColor: col(hue), textAlign: 'left', firstLineIndent: pt(0), paragraphSpacing: true }, lists: { color: col(hue), gap: mm(2.2), itemSpacing: pt(2.4) }, // bullets and numbers ...device }); // the kind's title, fill and device: its spread wins over the base // An SVG or bitmap resource, fitted into a square of that size (width × size with `width`). const icon = (id, size, more) => ({ kind: 'resource', resourceId: id, size: mm(size), ...more }); // #endregion // #region answer: three devices: an icon on a wide stripe, a numbered tab, an outer badge // box(id, hue, device) is the shared base: the hue colours the title, bullets and key terms. const TAB = 5, BADGE = 7.4; // in mm: the tab's height (and offset), the warning badge's size const calloutStyles = [ // The first style is also the one a missing or misspelt type falls back to. box('objectives', 'band', { title: t({ en: 'In this chapter', es: 'En este capítulo' }), background: col('tintBand'), stripe: { enabled: true, width: mm(7.5), color: col('band') }, icon: icon('target', 5) }), // on a side stripe (left by default) the icon is centred on it box('feature', 'band', { background: col('mist'), titleStyle: { fontFamily: 'Lexend', fontSize: pt(10.5), color: col('ink'), gap: mm(1.6) }, // Printed only where the fence has label="…": the tab, the flask beside it, a rule to them. label: { fontFamily: LABEL, fontSize: pt(8), color: col('paper'), background: col('ink'), position: 'top-left', // this verso's outer corner, above the badge ('top-right' by default) height: mm(TAB), offset: mm(TAB), paddingX: mm(2.3), // offset = height: on the top edge icon: { resourceId: 'flask', width: mm(4.4), gap: mm(1.2) }, rule: { enabled: true, color: col('ink'), width: pt(1.2) } } }), box('warning', 'warnInk', { background: col('tintWarn'), borderRadius: mm(1.4), border: { enabled: true, color: col('warn'), width: pt(0.75) }, // The badge hangs half past the outer corner: sides of half badge + GAP align the title. padding: { top: mm(2.8), right: mm(BADGE / 2 + GAP), bottom: mm(3.2), left: mm(BADGE / 2 + GAP) }, icon: icon('caution', BADGE, { position: 'corner', cornerSide: 'outer' }) }), ]; // straight into config(), followed by the 'more' styles // #endregion // #region more: a badge threaded on a thin rule, a strip of pictograms, a marker outside const BULB = 6.4; // the study tip's badge in mm: the text clears it const moreStyles = [ box('tip', 'tip', { title: t({ en: 'Study tip', es: 'Para recordar' }), backgroundEnabled: false, stripe: { enabled: true, width: pt(2.5), color: col('tip') }, // A stripe narrower than its icon: the badge sits on it at the top and hides it there. padding: { top: mm(0.6), right: mm(0), bottom: mm(0.6), left: mm(BULB / 2 + 2) }, icon: icon('bulb', BULB) }), box('safety', 'tip', { background: col('tintTip'), marginTop: pt(4), // under its heading icon: icon('safety', 7, { width: mm(24.5), align: 'center' }) }), // 3 pictograms, 1 image box('check', 'band', { background: col('tintBand'), // Outside the frame: [marker][rule][gap][box], the rule as tall as the box. marker: { kind: 'resource', resourceId: 'check', size: mm(7), align: 'top', gap: mm(3), rule: { enabled: true, color: col('band'), width: pt(0.75) } } }), ]; // #endregion // #region opener: a cell cut by the corner of the page, the chapter number inside it const text = (id, content, family, size, color, placement, extra) => ({ kind: 'text', id, content, fontFamily: family, fontSize: pt(size), color: col(color), placement, align: 'left', ...extra }); // an opener's texts wrap by default const below = (id, y, width) => ({ anchor: { to: `#${id}`, edge: 'below' }, offset: { y: mm(y) }, size: { width: mm(width) } }); const chapter = t({ en: 'Chapter {chapterNumber}', es: 'Capítulo {chapterNumber}' }); const opener = { enabled: true, minHeight: mm(66), slot: { elements: [ { kind: 'image', id: 'cell', resourceId: 'cell', placement: { anchor: { to: 'page', edge: 'top-right' }, offset: { x: mm(58), y: mm(-71) }, size: { width: mm(150) } } }, text('numeral', '{chapterNumber}', 'Lexend', 118, 'paper', { anchor: { to: 'page', edge: 'top-right' }, offset: { x: mm(-OUTER), y: mm(14) } }, { fontWeight: 800, lineHeight: 1, align: 'right' }), text('kicker', `${chapter} · {attr.unit}`, LABEL, 9, 'band', { anchor: { to: 'container', edge: 'top-left' }, offset: { y: mm(3) } }, { fontWeight: 700, letterSpacing: pt(1.8), textTransform: 'uppercase' }), text('title', '{titleText}', 'Lexend', 34, 'ink', below('kicker', 2.5, 112), { fontWeight: 700, lineHeight: 1.04 }), text('lead', '{attr.lead}', 'Noto Serif', 10.5, 'ink', below('title', 5, 98), { italic: true, lineHeight: 1.42 }), ] } }; // #endregion // Heads 12.8 mm below the trim (the larger folio 0.4 mm higher), titles 8.5 mm in from folios. const head = (id, content, parity, edge, x, extra, y = 12.8) => ({ kind: 'text', id, content, parity, pages: 'body', fontFamily: LABEL, fontSize: pt(7.8), fontWeight: 600, letterSpacing: pt(1.3), textTransform: 'uppercase', color: col('muted'), ...extra, placement: { anchor: { to: 'page', edge }, offset: { x: mm(x), y: mm(y) } } }); const folio = { fontFamily: 'Lexend', fontSize: pt(9), fontWeight: 700, color: col('band') }; const header = { elements: [ // folios on the fore-edge, never on the opener head('verso-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'even', 'top-left', OUTER, folio, 12.4), head('verso-title', '{title}', 'even', 'top-left', OUTER + 8.5), head('recto-title', `${chapter} · {chapterTitle}`, 'odd', 'top-right', -(OUTER + 8.5)), head('recto-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'odd', 'top-right', -OUTER, folio, 12.4), ] }; // the opener's folio drops to the foot: const footer = { elements: [{ ...head('drop', '{pageNumber}', 'all', 'bottom', 0, folio, -12), pages: 'opener' }] }; const config = () => ({ locale: t({ en: 'en-us', es: 'es' }), // hyphenation, and "Figura" in the Spanish captions colorPalette, header, footer, page: { width: mm(210), height: mm(280), dpi: 150, margins: { top: mm(24), bottom: mm(22), left: mm(20), right: mm(OUTER), mirror: true } }, // left is the inner margin layout: { layoutType: 'double', gutterWidth: mm(8) }, bodyText: { fontFamily: 'Noto Serif', fontSize: pt(9.4), lineHeight: pt(LEAD), color: col('ink'), boldColor: col('ink'), italicColor: col('ink'), referenceColor: col('band'), textAlign: 'justify', firstLineIndent: mm(4), indentAfterHeading: false }, // hyphens: default headings: { fontFamily: 'Lexend', color: col('band'), levels: [ // 'odd': a chapter opens on a recto, with a blank verso before it only when needed. { level: 1, span: 'page', breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'odd' }, marginTop: pt(0), marginBottom: pt(0), advancedDesign: opener }, { level: 2, fontSize: pt(12.5), lineHeight: pt(LEAD), numberingTemplate: '{1}.{2}', marginTop: pt(LEAD * 1.4), marginBottom: pt(LEAD * 0.6) }, // 3 lines, close to its text { level: 3, fontSize: pt(10.5), lineHeight: pt(LEAD), color: col('tip'), marginTop: pt(LEAD), marginBottom: pt(0) }, // a line clear of the text, on its box ] }, // Every list here is in a box, whose lists.color sets its bullets and its numbers alike. unorderedLists: { marginTop: pt(0), marginBottom: pt(0) }, orderedLists: { fontFamily: 'Lexend', color: col('tip'), marginTop: pt(0), marginBottom: pt(0) }, calloutStyles: [...calloutStyles, ...moreStyles], captionStyle: { fontFamily: LABEL, fontSize: pt(8.8), color: col('ink'), labelColor: col('band'), gap: mm(1.8) }, paragraphStyles: [{ id: 'colophon', fontFamily: LABEL, fontSize: pt(7.6), lineHeight: pt(10), color: col('muted'), textAlign: 'left', firstLineIndent: pt(0), marginTop: pt(LEAD) }], }); // ─── 2 · Content ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── const markdown = String.raw`---Esempio Markdown · 87 righe · content.en.md
title: "Living Matter" subtitle: "Biology for upper secondary school" --- # Cells and \\ Membranes {unit="The cell" lead="Every living cell is wrapped in a film ten thousand times thinner than a sheet of paper. Oxygen passes through it freely; salts and sugars need a protein to cross."} A cell is a crowded, watery workshop. Its enzymes need salts, sugars and building blocks close at hand, and its waste has to leave before it builds up. The **plasma membrane**, a layer about eight nanometres thick, separates that workshop from the world outside. In this chapter you will see what the membrane is made of and why it behaves more like a liquid than a wall. Some substances cross it at no cost to the cell; others cross only when the cell spends energy. :::callout{type="objectives"} - Use the **fluid mosaic model** to describe the plasma membrane. - Explain how **diffusion** and **osmosis** move substances without energy. - Predict how a cell changes in a hypertonic, an isotonic and a hypotonic solution. - Compare **active transport** with passive transport. ::: ## A boundary with doors Membranes are built mostly from **phospholipids**. Each molecule has a head that is attracted to water and two fatty tails that avoid it. In water, phospholipids arrange themselves so that the tails are hidden: they form a double layer, the **lipid bilayer**, with the heads facing the watery fluid on both sides and the tails meeting in the middle (:ref{id="mosaic"}). Because its core is oily, the bilayer lets small, neutral molecules such as oxygen and carbon dioxide slip straight across. Ions and larger polar molecules, such as glucose, are turned away. Water, although polar, is small enough to trickle through slowly on its own, and many cells speed it up with water channels, the aquaporins. Letting some substances through and not others is called **selective permeability**. It lets a cell keep an inside that differs from its surroundings, and it is why ions and sugars cross through proteins set in the membrane. :::callout{type="tip"} Read the name of the model as a description. **Fluid** means that the lipids drift sideways and swap places with their neighbours millions of times a second, and **mosaic** means that proteins are set into the layer like tiles in a floor. ::: ## The fluid mosaic In 1972 S. Jonathan Singer and Garth Nicolson proposed the model that is still used today. The bilayer is the fluid base, and proteins float in it: some span the whole membrane, others rest on one of its faces. **Channel proteins** form water-filled pores for particular ions, and **carrier proteins** change shape to move a molecule from one side to the other. Chains of sugars fixed to proteins and lipids face the outside of the cell and work as identity tags that other cells recognise. Cholesterol, tucked between the phospholipid tails, acts as a buffer. When it is warm, cholesterol restrains the tails and keeps the membrane from becoming runny; when it is cold, it keeps them from packing tightly and turning stiff. Living things tune their membranes to their temperature: bacteria grown in the cold build lipids with more kinks in their tails, which keeps the layer fluid, and many plants do the same as winter comes, as do the fish that live in the icy seas around Antarctica. :::callout{type="feature" label="BOX 2.1" title="Watching proteins drift" span="page"} :::columns{count=2 breaks="2"} ::resource{id="fusion"} In 1970 Larry Frye and Michael Edidin fused a mouse cell with a human cell. They had tagged the mouse membrane proteins with a green fluorescent dye and the human ones with a red dye. At first each colour kept to its own half of the hybrid cell. Forty minutes later, at 37 °C, the colours were completely mixed (:ref{id="fusion"}). Kept cold, the hybrids mixed far more slowly. The proteins were **drifting** on their own through a fluid layer that the cold made stiffer. ::: ::: :::callout{type="warning" title="Membrane or wall?"} Plants, fungi and most bacteria also have a **cell wall** outside the membrane. The wall gives the cell its shape and keeps it from bursting, but it lets almost everything through. Only the membrane is selectively permeable. ::: The lipids and many of the proteins in a membrane keep moving, yet the layer holds together, because wherever a lipid drifts, its tails stay hidden from the water. For the same reason, a small hole in a bilayer closes up again on its own. ## Crossing the membrane Particles in a solution never stop moving. **Diffusion** is their net movement from where they are more concentrated to where they are less, until they are evenly spread. It needs no energy from the cell, because the particles’ own motion does the work: oxygen diffuses into a cell that keeps using it up, and carbon dioxide diffuses out. **Osmosis** is the diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane. If the solution outside a cell holds more dissolved particles than the cytoplasm, it is **hypertonic**, and the cell loses water and shrinks; if it holds fewer, it is **hypotonic**, and water floods in; if the two are equal, it is **isotonic**, and the cell keeps its size (:ref{id="osmosis"}). Red blood cells in pure water swell until they burst. Plant cells do not burst: the wall holds them firm, which is why a watered plant stands upright and a dry one wilts. Diffusion is quick over short distances and slow over long ones. An oxygen molecule crosses a cell ten micrometres across in about a fortieth of a second, yet it would need some seven hours to diffuse one centimetre through water. That is one reason why cells stay small, and why large animals need lungs, gills and blood to carry oxygen the rest of the way. Transport down the gradient through a channel or a carrier protein is called **facilitated diffusion**, and it is still passive: the protein opens a way, but the cell spends no energy on it. To move a substance uphill, from low concentration to high, a cell has to spend energy, usually as ATP, and that is **active transport**. The sodium–potassium pump in your nerve cells pushes three sodium ions out and two potassium ions in for every ATP it uses, and pumps like it take a large share of a resting cell’s energy. :::callout{type="check" title="Check yourself" span="page" placement="bottom"} :::columns{count=2 breaks="4"} 1. Why can oxygen cross the bilayer but glucose cannot? 2. What does **fluid** mean in the fluid mosaic model? 3. A slice of cucumber is left in salty water. Use **osmosis** to predict what happens to its cells. 4. Why does the sodium–potassium pump count as **active transport** and not as diffusion? 5. Could a cell with a rigid membrane use **endocytosis** to take in a bacterium? Explain. ::: ::: ## Moving in bulk Some cargo is far too large for any channel or carrier. A white blood cell swallows a whole bacterium by wrapping its membrane around it and pinching off a bubble, a **vesicle**, into the cytoplasm: this is **endocytosis**. Cells drink the same way: in pinocytosis the membrane folds in around a droplet of the fluid outside, with whatever is dissolved in it. The reverse, **exocytosis**, carries material out. Vesicles filled with hormones, digestive enzymes or the mucus that lines your airways fuse with the plasma membrane and empty their contents outside. Most signals that a nerve cell passes to the next leave it the same way: vesicles release messenger molecules, the neurotransmitters, into the narrow gap between the two cells. Both processes cost energy, and both work only because the bilayer is fluid enough to break and reseal without leaking. Membranes do not stop at the surface of the cell. Inside it, the same bilayer wraps the nucleus, the mitochondria and a maze of inner compartments, each keeping its own chemistry apart from the rest. In Chapter 3 you will follow a protein that the cell exports, from the ribosome that makes it, through the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi apparatus, to the vesicle that releases it outside. ### Try it: osmosis in a potato :::callout{type="safety" title="Lab safety"} Wear safety goggles and gloves, and always cut away from your fingers. ::: 1. Cut two potato strips of the same size, about five centimetres long, and weigh them. 2. Leave one in tap water and the other in strongly salted water for thirty minutes. 3. Dry both strips, weigh them again and bend them. 4. Explain the change in mass and in stiffness with what you know about osmosis. :::paragraphs{style="colophon"} **Living Matter** is a textbook invented for the Postext Cookbook. Text and drawings: original, CC BY 4.0. Set in Noto Serif, Lexend and Barlow Semi Condensed (SIL Open Font License). :::`; // content.<lang>.md, inlined by the Cookbook // #region icons: icons are resources too: declared with the content, registered by file id const svgResource = (id, width, height, extra) => ({ id, typeId: 'figure', kind: 'svg', svg: { fileId: `${id}.svg`, width, height }, createdAt: 0, updatedAt: 0, ...extra }); const pageTop = { position: 'top', span: 'page' }; // a 'top' float opens the page after its :ref const resources = [ // Uncited, so never placed as figures: the box styles and the opener use them by id. ...['target', 'bulb', 'caution', 'check'].map((id) => svgResource(id, 240, 240)), svgResource('flask', 200, 240), svgResource('safety', 760, 240), svgResource('cell', 2000, 2000), svgResource('mosaic', 3480, 1240, { placement: pageTop, caption: t({ en: 'The fluid mosaic: magenta phospholipids, green proteins, an amber carrier with its ' + 'glucose, grey cholesterol, amber sugars.', // one line: the page is wide es: 'El mosaico fluido: fosfolípidos magenta, proteínas verdes, transportadora ámbar con su ' + 'glucosa, colesterol gris, azúcares ámbar.' }), altText: t({ en: 'A cell membrane in section', es: 'Una membrana celular en sección' }) }), svgResource('fusion', 1800, 500, { placement: { position: 'here' }, caption: t({ en: 'Mouse proteins in green, human proteins in magenta (the red dye): the two cells, the ' + 'hybrid just after fusion and the same hybrid 40 minutes later.', es: 'En verde, las proteínas de ratón; en magenta, las humanas (el colorante rojo): las dos ' + 'células, el híbrido recién fusionado y el mismo híbrido 40 minutos después.' }), altText: t({ en: 'Two cells fusing into a hybrid', es: 'Dos células que se fusionan' }) }), svgResource('osmosis', 3480, 860, { placement: pageTop, caption: t({ en: 'Red blood cells in a hypertonic, an isotonic and a hypotonic solution. Arrows show the ' + 'net flow of water.', es: 'Glóbulos rojos en una disolución hipertónica, una isotónica y una hipotónica. Las flechas ' + 'indican el flujo neto de agua.' }), altText: t({ en: 'Blood cells in three solutions', es: 'Glóbulos rojos en tres medios' }) }), ]; // #endregion // #region art: the icons and the drawings, in the palette's colours (seeded) // No words in them: the captions name the colours, so one drawing serves both editions. function rng(seed) { // Mulberry32: the same drawing on every run return () => { seed = (seed + 0x6d2b79f5) | 0; let x = Math.imul(seed ^ (seed >>> 15), 1 | seed); x = (x + Math.imul(x ^ (x >>> 7), 61 | x)) ^ x; return ((x ^ (x >>> 14)) >>> 0) / 4294967296; }; } const n = (v) => +v.toFixed(2); const svg = (w, h, body) => `<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="${w * 10}" ` + `height="${h * 10}" viewBox="0 0 ${w} ${h}">${body}</svg>`; const dot = (x, y, r, fill, extra = '') => `<circle cx="${n(x)}" cy="${n(y)}" r="${n(r)}" ` + `fill="${fill}"${extra}/>`; const line = (d, stroke, width, extra = '') => `<path d="${d}" fill="none" stroke="${stroke}" ` + `stroke-width="${width}" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"${extra}/>`; const shape = (d, fill, extra = '') => `<path d="${d}" fill="${fill}"${extra}/>`; const capsule = (x, y, w, h, fill, turn = 0, extra = '') => `<rect x="${n(x - w / 2)}" ` + `y="${n(y - h / 2)}" width="${n(w)}" height="${n(h)}" rx="${n(Math.min(w, h) / 2)}" ` + `fill="${fill}" transform="rotate(${n(turn)} ${n(x)} ${n(y)})"${extra}/>`; const arrow = (x, y, len, turn, fill) => shape(`M${x} ${y - 0.9}h${len - 4}v-1.9l4 2.8-4 2.8` + `v-1.9H${x}Z`, fill, ` transform="rotate(${turn} ${x} ${y})"`); // a path, never a marker function target() { // white rings on the magenta stripe return svg(24, 24, `<g fill="none" stroke="${palette.paper}" stroke-width="2.3">` + `<circle cx="12" cy="12" r="9.8"/><circle cx="12" cy="12" r="5.3"/></g>` + dot(12, 12, 1.9, palette.paper)); } function bulb() { return svg(24, 24, dot(12, 12, 12, palette.tip) + shape('M12 4.4a5.6 5.6 0 0 0-3.3 10.1c.7.5 1 ' + '1.1 1 1.9v.6h4.6v-.6c0-.8.3-1.4 1-1.9A5.6 5.6 0 0 0 12 4.4Z', palette.paper) + capsule(12, 18.6, 4.6, 1.3, palette.paper) + capsule(12, 20.3, 3, 1.2, palette.paper)); } function flask() { const body = 'M8 2v7L2.4 19.4A2.1 2.1 0 0 0 4.3 22.5h11.4a2.1 2.1 0 0 0 1.9-3.1L12 9V2'; return svg(20, 24, shape(`${body}Z`, palette.paper) + shape('M5.3 14h9.4l3 5.4a1.1 1.1 0 0 1-1 ' + '1.6H3.3a1.1 1.1 0 0 1-1-1.6Z', palette.band) + dot(8.6, 17.4, 1.1, palette.paper) + dot(11.8, 18.7, 0.8, palette.paper) + line(body, palette.ink, 1.7) + line('M6.4 2h7.2', palette.ink, 1.7)); } function caution() { // ink on amber: white on amber would fail contrast return svg(24, 24, dot(12, 12, 11, palette.warn, ` stroke="${palette.paper}" stroke-width="2"`) + capsule(12, 10, 2.8, 9.2, palette.ink) + dot(12, 17.6, 1.7, palette.ink)); } function check() { // a ticked tile: square where the study tip's badge is round return svg(24, 24, `<rect width="24" height="24" rx="5.5" fill="${palette.band}"/>` + line('M6.3 12.6l3.8 3.8 7.6-8', palette.paper, 2.9)); } function safety() { // goggles, a glove and a blade: three mandatory-action discs const goggles = `<g fill="none" stroke="${palette.paper}" stroke-width="1.5">` + '<rect x="4.3" y="9" width="6.6" height="5.6" rx="2.4"/>' + '<rect x="13.1" y="9" width="6.6" height="5.6" rx="2.4"/></g>' + line('M10.9 11.4q1.1-1 2.2 0M2.6 11.6h1.7M19.7 11.6h1.7', palette.paper, 1.4); const glove = shape('M32.4 20.5v-6.6l-2.3-2.7a1.2 1.2 0 0 1 1.8-1.6l1.4 1.5V6.2a1.1 1.1 0 0 1 ' + '2.2 0v5.2V4.9a1.1 1.1 0 0 1 2.2 0v6.5V5.5a1.1 1.1 0 0 1 2.2 0v6.2V7a1.1 1.1 0 0 1 2.2 0v8.6' + 'l-1.2 4.9Z', palette.paper); const blade = `<g transform="rotate(-45 64 12)">${capsule(64, 16.3, 3.6, 9, palette.paper)}` + shape('M62.2 11.4V6.3L64 3.2l1.8 3.1v5.1Z', palette.paper) + '</g>'; return svg(76, 24, [12, 38, 64].map((x) => dot(x, 12, 11.4, palette.ink)).join('') + goggles + glove + blade); } function blob(cx, cy, rx, ry, r, fill, extra = '', square = 2.6) { // a soft, uneven shape const pts = Array.from({ length: 16 }, (_, i) => { const [c, sn] = [Math.cos((i * Math.PI) / 8), Math.sin((i * Math.PI) / 8)]; const k = 1 + (r() - 0.5) * 0.12; const f = (v) => Math.sign(v) * Math.abs(v) ** (2 / square); // squarer than an ellipse return [cx + f(c) * rx * k, cy + f(sn) * ry * k]; }); const mid = (a, b) => [(a[0] + b[0]) / 2, (a[1] + b[1]) / 2].map(n); const d = pts.map((p, i) => `Q${p.map(n)} ${mid(p, pts[(i + 1) % 16])}`).join(''); return shape(`M${mid(pts[15], pts[0])}${d}Z`, fill, extra); } const shine = (cx, cy, rx, ry, r) => blob(cx - rx * 0.28, cy - ry * 0.34, rx * 0.46, ry * 0.4, r, palette.paper, ' fill-opacity=".22"'); const pale = ` stroke="${palette.tip}" stroke-width="1.6"`; // a light green protein, outlined const sugars = (x, y, r, count = 5) => { // a chain of sugars, branched once const sugar = (sx, sy) => dot(sx, sy, 2.1, palette.warn, ` stroke="${palette.paper}" stroke-width=".7"`); let out = ''; for (let k = 0; k < count; k++, y -= 4.3, x += (r() - 0.5) * 4) { out += sugar(x, y) + (k === 2 ? sugar(x + 4.3, y - 1.6) : ''); } return out; }; function cell() { // a cell drawn as a disc of bilayer: mostly its lower-left quarter shows let out = dot(100, 100, 71, palette.band); for (let a = 0; a < 360; a += 3.05) { const [c, s] = [Math.cos((a * Math.PI) / 180), Math.sin((a * Math.PI) / 180)]; const at = (d) => [100 + c * d, 100 + s * d]; const tail = (d0, d1) => line(`M${at(d0).map(n)}L${at(d1).map(n)}`, palette.rule, 0.8); out += tail(90.5, 84.8) + tail(75.8, 81.2) + dot(...at(92.6), 2.6, palette.band) + dot(...at(73.6), 2.5, palette.paper); } [106, 133, 157, 184].forEach((a, k) => { // proteins across the visible arc const rad = (a * Math.PI) / 180; const fill = k % 2 ? palette.warn : palette.tip; out += capsule(100 + Math.cos(rad) * 83, 100 + Math.sin(rad) * 83, 26, 7, fill, a); }); return svg(200, 200, out); } function mosaic() { // the membrane in section, 174 × 62 mm; the outside of the cell on top const r = rng(5); const W = 348; const yc = (x) => 70 + 3.4 * Math.sin(x / 44); const proteins = [[56, 34, palette.tip, 'channel'], [148, 38, palette.warn, 'carrier'], [234, 27, palette.tip], [306, 32, palette.tintTip, 'pale']]; const clear = (x) => proteins.every(([px, w]) => Math.abs(x - px) > w / 2 + 1.8); let out = `<rect width="${W}" height="70" fill="${palette.tintBand}"/>` + `<rect y="70" width="${W}" height="54" fill="${palette.mist}"/>`; for (let x = 4; x < W; x += 5.9) { // phospholipids: heads out, two tails in if (!clear(x)) continue; for (const s of [-1, 1]) { const y = yc(x) + s * 13; for (const dx of [-1, 1]) { out += line(`M${n(x + dx)} ${n(y - s * 2.4)}l${n(r() - 0.5)} ${-s * 4}` + `l${n(r() - 0.5)} ${-s * 4.6}`, palette.band, 0.75, ' stroke-opacity=".4"'); } out += dot(x, y, 2.75, palette.band); if (r() < 0.13 && clear(x + 3)) { // cholesterol among the tails: the only grey rods out += capsule(x + 3, y - s * 7.4, 2.1, 7.2, palette.ink, 0, ' fill-opacity=".62"'); } } } out += sugars(196, yc(196) - 16.5, r, 3); // a glycolipid for (const [px, w, fill, kind] of proteins) { // proteins across the bilayer const y = yc(px); const halves = kind === 'channel' ? [px - w / 4 - 1.3, px + w / 4 + 1.3] : [px]; for (const x of halves) { const rx = kind === 'channel' ? w / 4 : w / 2; out += blob(x, y, rx, 21, r, fill, kind === 'pale' ? pale : '') + shine(x, y, rx, 21, r); } if (kind === 'channel') { out += dot(px, y - 7, 2, palette.warnInk) + dot(px, y + 4, 2, palette.warnInk); } if (kind === 'carrier') { // a glucose held in the carrier's open mouth out += shape(`M${px - 7} ${y - 24}L${px} ${y - 12}L${px + 7} ${y - 24}Z`, palette.tintBand) + shape(`M${px - 3.6} ${y - 19.5}l1.8-3.1h3.6l1.8 3.1-1.8 3.1h-3.6Z`, palette.paper, ` stroke="${palette.ink}" stroke-width=".8"`); } else out += sugars(px + (r() - 0.5) * 5, y - 22.5, r); } out += blob(100, yc(100) + 22.5, 11, 5.5, r, palette.tintTip, pale) // proteins on one face only + blob(270, yc(270) - 22, 8.5, 5, r, palette.tip); for (let x = 6; x < W; x += 3.2) { // the cytoskeleton under the membrane out += dot(x, 111 + 2.2 * Math.sin(x / 7), 1.4, palette.muted, ' fill-opacity=".45"'); } for (let k = 0; k < 9; k++) { // oxygen outside the cell const [x, y] = [14 + r() * 320, 8 + r() * 26]; for (const dx of [0, 2.6]) out += dot(x + dx, y, 1.5, palette.ink, ' fill-opacity=".5"'); } return svg(W, 124, out); } function fusion() { // two cells, the hybrid just after fusion, the hybrid 40 minutes later const r = rng(3); const cellAt = (cx, rx, fill, nuclei, pick) => { let out = `<ellipse cx="${cx}" cy="25" rx="${rx}" ry="${Math.min(rx, 15)}" fill="${fill}" ` + `stroke="${palette.ink}" stroke-width=".8"/>` + nuclei.map((x) => dot(x, 25, 4.2, palette.rule)).join(''); for (let a = 0; a < 360; a += 12) { const rad = (a * Math.PI) / 180; out += dot(cx + Math.cos(rad) * rx, 25 + Math.sin(rad) * Math.min(rx, 15), 1.7, pick(Math.cos(rad), r())); } return out; }; return svg(180, 50, cellAt(16, 13, palette.tintTip, [16], () => palette.tip) + cellAt(45, 13, palette.tintBand, [45], () => palette.band) + arrow(65, 25, 12, 0, palette.muted) + cellAt(104, 22, palette.paper, [96, 112], (c) => (c < 0 ? palette.tip : palette.band)) + arrow(132, 25, 12, 0, palette.muted) + cellAt(163, 15.5, palette.paper, [158, 168], (c, k) => (k < 0.5 ? palette.tip : palette.band))); } function osmosis() { // three solutions: water leaves, stays even, floods in const r = rng(9); const panel = (x, solutes, body, flow) => { let out = `<rect x="${x}" width="108" height="86" rx="4" fill="${palette.mist}"/>`; for (let k = 0; k < solutes; k++) { const [px, py] = [x + 5 + r() * 98, 5 + r() * 76]; if (Math.hypot(px - x - 54, py - 43) > 30) out += dot(px, py, 1.5, palette.muted); } for (let k = 0; k < 6; k++) { // arrows: the net flow of water, out (+1) or in (-1) const rad = (k * Math.PI) / 3 + 0.5; if (flow === 0 && k % 3) continue; const d = flow < 0 || (flow === 0 && k) ? 40 : 27; out += arrow(x + 54 + Math.cos(rad) * d, 43 + Math.sin(rad) * d, 10, (rad * 180) / Math.PI + (d > 30 ? 180 : 0), palette.tip); } return out + body; }; const at = (k, d) => [54 + Math.cos((k * Math.PI) / 11) * d, 43 + Math.sin((k * Math.PI) / 11) * d].map(n); const crenated = `M${at(0, 13)}${Array.from({ length: 22 }, (_, k) => (k % 2 ? '' : `Q${at(k + 1, 19)} ${at(k + 2, 13)}`)).join('')}Z`; // bumps: control points outside const disc = (x, rr) => dot(x + 54, 43, rr, palette.band) + dot(x + 54, 43, rr * 0.45, palette.tintBand); return svg(348, 86, panel(0, 70, shape(crenated, palette.band), 1) + panel(120, 34, disc(120, 17), 0) + panel(240, 8, disc(240, 23), -1)); } const drawings = { target, bulb, flask, caution, safety, check, cell, mosaic, fusion, osmosis }; // #endregion // ─── 3 · Fonts ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── const FONTS = { 'Noto Serif': ['400', '400i', '700'], Lexend: ['700', '800'], // text, display, 'Barlow Semi Condensed': ['400', '600', '700'] }; // labels // ─── 4 · Build & show ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── await Promise.all([prepareFonts(markdown, config(), kitFonts(FONTS)), ...Object.entries(drawings).map(([id, draw]) => loadSvg(`${id}.svg`, draw()))]); // Folio 27 is odd like page 1, always a recto: parity follows the page (gotcha: parity-page1-recto) const continuation = { pageNumbering: { startAt: 27 }, headings: { h1: 1, h2: 0, h3: 0, h4: 0, h5: 0, h6: 0 } }; // the next # is chapter 2 const doc = await buildDocumentWithFonts({ markdown, resources, continuation }, config(), kitFonts(FONTS)); showPages(doc, { title: t({ en: 'Living Matter, chapter 2', es: 'Materia viva, capítulo 2' }) });Kit · core, fonts, viewer, images: uguale in ogni ricetta · 270 righe
// ─── 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 v3 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook // Postext loads the faces a config asks for before layout (prepareFonts, // buildDocumentWithFonts) and asks the kit for the files: Fontsource's, the // files the PDF embeds too. /** The options of buildDocumentWithFonts / prepareFonts / withLoadedFonts: * the Fontsource resolver, and the faces of FONTS loaded with the ones the * config names. FONTS = { 'Family Name': ['400', '400i', '700'] }. */ function kitFonts(FONTS = {}) { const faces = Object.entries(FONTS).flatMap(([family, specs]) => specs.map((spec) => ({ family, weight: parseInt(spec, 10), style: spec.endsWith('i') ? 'italic' : 'normal' }))); return { resolve: fontsourceResolver, faces }; } /** A face's Fontsource files, in a fixed order: latin, then latin-ext and greek * when `text` needs them and the family ships them (kitSubsetsFor), each with * its unicode-range. Null for a weight or slant Fontsource does not ship. */ async function fontsourceResolver(family, weight, style, { text = '' } = {}) { const id = fontsourceId(family); const meta = await fontsourceMeta(family); if (meta && !(meta.weights.includes(weight) && meta.styles.includes(style))) return null; kitStatus('Loading fonts…'); const at = await fontsourceAt(id); return ['latin', ...kitSubsetsFor(text, meta)].map((subset) => ({ source: `${at}files/${id}-${subset}-${weight}-${style}.woff2`, unicodeRange: kitRanges()[subset], })); } /** The unicode-range of each Fontsource file the kit loads (a function: the * kit is inlined after the pen's code, which runs before a const would be set). */ function kitRanges() { return { latin: 'U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,' + 'U+2000-206F,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD', 'latin-ext': 'U+0100-02BA,U+02BD-02C5,U+02C7-02CC,U+02CE-02D7,U+02DD-02FF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,' + 'U+1D00-1DBF,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20C0,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF', greek: 'U+0370-03FF', }; } /** For the cjk, arabic and comics blocks, which add their own files: the * faces of `faces` = { 'Family Name': ['400', '400i', '700'] }. `text` is the sample: * č ł † α χ also load latin-ext and greek files (kitSubsetsFor). With * `optional`, a face Fontsource does not ship is skipped instead of failing. * The files are added once all have loaded, in the order asked (latin, then * latin-ext, then greek), whatever order they arrive in: the last one added * wins a character two files hold. Resolves to the number of faces added. */ async function loadFonts(faces, text = '', { optional = false } = {}) { kitStatus('Loading fonts…'); const ranges = kitRanges(); const jobs = []; for (const [family, specs] of Object.entries(faces)) { const id = fontsourceId(family); const todo = [...new Set(specs)].map((spec) => [parseInt(spec, 10), spec.endsWith('i') ? 'italic' : 'normal']) .filter(([weight, style]) => !hasFace(family, weight, style)); // before any await const at = fontsourceAt(id); const meta = optional || /[^\0-ÿ]/u.test(text) ? await fontsourceMeta(family) : null; const subsets = ['latin', ...kitSubsetsFor(text, meta)]; for (const [weight, style] of todo) { if (optional && !(meta?.weights.includes(weight) && meta.styles.includes(style))) continue; for (const subset of subsets) { const url = `${await at}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().catch(() => { if (subset === 'latin' && !optional) throw new Error(`Fontsource has no ${family} ${weight} ${style}`); })); } } } const ready = await Promise.all(jobs).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; }); return ready.filter((face) => face && document.fonts.add(face)).length; } /** A loaded FontFace covers this family, weight and style (fonts.check() would * also say yes for families nobody declared). */ function hasFace(family, weight, style) { for (const face of document.fonts) { if (face.status !== 'loaded' || face.style !== style) continue; if (face.family.replace(/^["']|["']$/g, '') !== family) continue; const [low, high = low] = face.weight.split(' ').map(Number); if (weight >= low && weight <= high) return true; } return false; } /** The files beyond latin `text` needs that `meta`'s family ships. */ function kitSubsetsFor(text, meta) { return [[/[Ā-˿ᴀ-ᶿḀ-ỿ†ℓⱠ-Ɀ꜠-ꟿ]/u, 'latin-ext'], [/[Ͱ-Ͽ]/u, 'greek']] .filter(([re, x]) => re.test(text) && meta?.subsets?.includes(x)).map(([, x]) => x); } /** Fontsource's id for a family: 'Source Serif 4' → 'source-serif-4'. */ function fontsourceId(family) { return family.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '-'); } /** A package's folder at the one version @5 names now (#766). */ function fontsourceAt(id, u = `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fontsource/${id}@`) { return (fontsourceAt.c ??= {})[id] ??= fetch(u + '5/package.json').then((r) => r.json()) .then((p) => p.version || 5, () => 5).then((v) => `${u}${v}/`); } /** The family's Fontsource metadata (weights, styles, subsets), or null. */ function fontsourceMeta(family) { fontsourceMeta.cache ??= new Map(); const id = fontsourceId(family); if (!fontsourceMeta.cache.has(id)) { fontsourceMeta.cache.set(id, fetch(`https://api.fontsource.org/v1/fonts/${id}`) .then((res) => (res.ok ? res.json() : null), () => null)); } return fontsourceMeta.cache.get(id); } // ─── Kit · viewer v2 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook /** The pages as spreads on a dark desk, page 1 alone, then verso | recto, * each painted when it scrolls near. Other options go to renderPageToCanvas. */ function showPages(docs, { title, width = 460, ...render } = {}) { 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, { ...render, 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: ${error?.message ?? error}`); } // ─── Kit · images v3 ── recipes with pictures · postext.dev/cookbook /** Registers a photo or PNG for the canvas and keeps its bytes for the PDF. * fetch → ImageBitmap never taints the canvas (a plain cross-origin <img> would). */ async function loadImage(fileId, url) { const res = await fetch(url); if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Image not found (${res.status}): ${url}`); const bytes = new Uint8Array(await res.arrayBuffer()); registerResourceImage(fileId, await createImageBitmap(new Blob([bytes]))); (loadImage.bytes ??= new Map()).set(fileId, bytes); } /** Registers SVG markup as a vector image, its fonts inside (inlineSvgFonts, ≥ 1.25). * `options` go to registerResourceImage: { singleInk: true } tints it on the canvas. */ async function loadSvg(fileId, svg, options) { if (typeof inlineSvgFonts === 'function') svg = await inlineSvgFonts(svg, svgFaces); const img = new Image(); img.src = `data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,${encodeURIComponent(svg)}`; await img.decode(); registerResourceImage(fileId, img, options); (loadImage.bytes ??= new Map()).set(fileId, new TextEncoder().encode(svg)); } /** A face's Fontsource files: nearest weight; latin + what the SVG sets. */ async function svgFaces(family, weight, style, { codePoints = [] } = {}) { const [id, m] = [fontsourceId(family), await fontsourceMeta(family)]; const w = m?.weights.reduce((a, b) => (Math.abs(b - weight) < Math.abs(a - weight) ? b : a)) ?? weight; const s = m?.styles.includes(style) === false ? 'normal' : style; return Promise.all(['latin', ...kitSubsetsFor(String.fromCodePoint(...codePoints), m)].map(async (x) => new Uint8Array( await (await fetch(`${await fontsourceAt(id)}files/${id}-${x}-${w}-${s}.woff2`)).arrayBuffer()))); } /** renderToPdf({ resourceBytes: imageBytes }) */ function imageBytes(fileId) { return loadImage.bytes?.get(fileId); } /** renderToHtml({ resourceImageUrl: imageUrl }) */ function imageUrl(fileId) { const bytes = imageBytes(fileId); if (!bytes) return undefined; imageUrl.urls ??= new Map(); if (!imageUrl.urls.has(fileId)) { const type = /\.svg$/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 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Lo script.js composto funziona così com’è: incollalo nello script modulo di qualsiasi pagina, oppure apri la ricetta su CodePen. Cartella della ricetta su GitHub ↗ (si apre in una nuova scheda)
Varianti
#Componi un riquadro su entrambe le colonne
span="page" su un recinto compone qualsiasi tipo di riquadro su entrambe le colonne; BOX 2.1 annida anche un gruppo :::columns per mettere la figura accanto al testo.
-:::callout{type="warning" title="Membrane or wall?"}
+:::callout{type="warning" title="Membrane or wall?" span="page"}#Appendi il badge dal lato del dorso
'inner' sposta il badge dal lato del dorso, a sinistra su un recto e a destra su un verso; lascia spazio da quel lato per la metà che sporge dal riquadro.
- icon: icon('caution', BADGE, { position: 'corner', cornerSide: 'outer' }) }),
+ icon: icon('caution', BADGE, { position: 'corner', cornerSide: 'inner' }) }),#Metti la linguetta sull’angolo destro
'top-right', il valore predefinito, rispecchia tutta l’etichetta: la linguetta passa all’angolo destro, la beuta alla sua sinistra, e il filetto entra da sinistra.
- position: 'top-left', // this verso's outer corner, above the badge ('top-right' by default)
+ position: 'top-right',Errori frequenti
Errore frequente
I file di Fontsource coprono le lettere, non i simboli
Il kit incorpora il file latin di Fontsource di un carattere, più il suo file latin-ext per č, ł, † e il suo file greek per α, χ (nelle famiglie che ne hanno uno: Lora e Gelasio no), quando il testo li compone, a schermo e nel PDF. Simboli come →, ≈, ✓ e ★ non sono in nessuno di quei file e spariscono nel PDF: disegnali, componili come matematica o scegli un carattere i cui file li contengano. Font incorporati nel PDF →
Errore frequente
Un elemento flottante 'top' va alla pagina dopo la sua citazione, a meno che non possa aprire la pagina che lo cita
Per impostazione predefinita un elemento flottante non va mai sopra il proprio riferimento, quindi un flottante 'top' a tutta larghezza citato a pagina N apre la pagina N+1. Imposta placement.citingPage: true sulla risorsa o sul defaultPlacement del suo tipo (o layout.floatsAtCitingPage per tutto il libro, da postext 1.25) e aprirà invece la pagina N, con il testo sopra il riferimento che scende sotto di esso, quando entra entro layout.maxTopFraction e la riga che lo cita resta su quella pagina. Non apre mai la prima pagina di un capitolo né una pagina dopo un’interruzione forzata: lì apre ancora la pagina successiva, e 'auto' o 'bottom' possono prendere il piede della pagina che lo cita. Collocazione delle figure →
Errore frequente
La pagina 1 è un recto: pianifica le pagine con i numeri fisici
La pagina 1 è una pagina destra e la pagina 2 il primo verso, quindi pianifica le doppie pagine con i numeri di pagina fisici: un’apertura su una pagina pari sta di fronte alla pagina dispari che la segue. Interruzioni di pagina e di colonna →
Avviso di impaginazione · unknownCalloutType
Tipo di riquadro sconosciuto
Perché. Un :::callout indica un tipo che calloutStyles non definisce, quindi prende in silenzio il primo stile.
Soluzione. Definisci lo stile oppure correggi l’attributo type. Documentazione →
- La linguetta si stampa solo quando il recinto ha
label="BOX 2.1"e lo stile ha un oggettolabel. Uno stile che non ce l’ha ignora l’attributo. - Postext non numera i riquadri. L’etichetta è il testo letterale del recinto, quindi scrivi a mano ogni numero, BOX 2.1, BOX 2.2.
- Un badge d’angolo sporge di metà della sua larghezza oltre il lato del riquadro, nel margine dal lato esterno della pagina. Nell’altra colonna della stessa pagina sporge nell’intercolonna, quindi tieni i riquadri con badge nella colonna esterna o lascia loro spazio.
- Il
lists.colordi un riquadro colora allo stesso modo i punti elenco e i numeri dei suoi elenchi numerati, quindi i passi e le domande numerate qui si stampano nella tinta del loro riquadro. Per colorare solo i punti elenco di un riquadro, toglilists.colordal suo stile e impostaunorderedLists.colorper il documento; i numeri mantengono alloraorderedLists.color.
Crediti
- Ricetta
- Ignacio Ferro
- Testo
- Testo originale, CC BY 4.0
- Font
- Noto Serif (SIL OFL 1.1) · Lexend (SIL OFL 1.1) · Barlow Semi Condensed (SIL OFL 1.1)
- Codice
- MIT, come Postext
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