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Um livro curto sobre os jeitos de começar um capítulo, em que cada capítulo abre num estilo diferente. Mostra como dar a um capítulo cores, margens e diagramação próprias com um único ajuste.
O que você vai compor
Five Ways to Begin é um livro de sete páginas sobre aberturas de capítulo, em 180 × 240 mm, e cada capítulo é composto com a abertura que descreve. O primeiro é de romance: um chapéu espacejado, um título em itálico leve e uma capitular vermelha de cinco linhas, com cabeços nas páginas seguintes. O segundo põe o título e um florão dentro de uma cartela creme desenhada com dois fios azuis. O terceiro empilha o título em Fraunces Black branca sobre um campo magenta que sangra para fora da página, acima de uma inicial monoespaçada vazada numa caixa. O quarto, o do manual, tem cabeços em monoespaçada, um selo laranja com o número ao lado do título e duas colunas de Geist. A coda põe o título no meio de uma página vazia, sobre uma inicial elevada. O capítulo um usa a abertura do próprio nível 1; os outros quatro nomeiam um estilo de título na linha do título.
Esta receita responde a
- Como dou a cada capítulo sua própria foto, cor ou variante de abertura?
- Como acrescento a uma abertura uma linha de autor, uma linha fina ou um primeiro parágrafo com capitular?
- Como coloco o título do capítulo na largura da página enquanto o texto segue em duas colunas abaixo?
- Como faço um selo com o número ao lado do título que se alarga quando o número cresce (9 → 10)?
A resposta curta
// A heading line picks a style by id, and its attributes feed the opener's {attr.…} texts:
// # The Frame {style="framed" kicker="Chapter the Second" lead="Long before there…"}
// A style overrides the level fields it names (here the opener) and, until the next level-1
// heading, the section fields it names; what it leaves out comes from the level and document.
const level1 = () => ({ level: 1,
// span 'page' opens each chapter at the head of a new page and runs its opener across
// every column (chapter four has two). Any headings object drops the default break to a
// recto (gotcha: headings-drop-h1-break): restate the side, 'any' for short chapters.
span: 'page',
breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'any' },
marginBottom: pt(LEAD), // one line of air between the opener and the text
advancedDesign: literary }); // chapter one, unstyled: the book's own opener
const headingStyles = () => [ // factories, called by config() once every design exists
// Each style brings its opener and swaps 'accent' for a colour of its own, on its pages.
{ id: 'framed', advancedDesign: framed, palette: { accent: palette.lapis },
margins: { left: mm(EVEN), right: mm(EVEN) } }, // a centred text block
{ id: 'stacked', advancedDesign: stacked, palette: { accent: palette.magenta } },
{ id: 'spec', advancedDesign: spec, palette: { accent: palette.signal },
marginBottom: pt(0), // the hairline under the title is the separator
margins: { left: mm(SPEC), right: mm(SPEC) }, // a 144 mm text block
layout: { layoutType: 'double', gutterWidth: mm(7) },
bodyStyle: { fontFamily: 'Geist', fontSize: pt(9.8), textAlign: 'left' }, // on the grid
header: { elements: [...specHead('even'), ...specHead('odd')] },
footer: { elements: [] } }, // no folio at the foot: the head gives the page
{ id: 'quiet', numbered: false, // a coda: it advances no chapter counter
advancedDesign: quiet, palette: { accent: palette.graphite }, footer: tinyFolio,
margins: { left: mm(QUIET.inner), right: mm(QUIET.outer) }, // a 106 mm measure
bodyStyle: { fontSize: pt(QUIET.size), lineHeight: pt(QUIET.lead), textAlign: 'left' } },
]; // hook-up in config(): headings: { levels: [level1(), …] }, headingStyles()
Ingredientes
- Funcionalidades
- Estilos de títuloGeometria por seçãoCapitulares nas aberturasCabeços por seçãoAberturas desenhadasCores por parteCapítulos sem númeroFaixa de capítulo em largura totalTextos, fios e caixas nos designs de páginaImagens nos designs de páginaAtributos de títuloFaixas sangradas e guias lateraisQuebras de linha nos títulosAncoragem de elementos de designCabeços e fóliosCabeços por tipo de páginaPaleta de cores semânticaTítulos numeradosEstilos de parágrafoFiguras e tabelas como recursos
- Tipografia
- Lora, Fraunces, Geist, Geist Mono (SIL OFL 1.1)
- Materiais
- Nenhum: todas as imagens são desenhadas em código
Preparo
#1 · Ponha no nível a abertura própria do livro
// The opening paragraph comes from lead="…" on the heading line: drop caps exist only in
// design text, so the lead is part of the opener (gap: body-drop-cap).
const lead = (placement, dropCap, extra = {}) => text('lead', '{attr.lead}', 'Lora',
LEADIN.size, placement, { lineHeight: LEADIN.lead / LEADIN.size, dropCap, ...extra });
const CAPS = 0.7; // the height of a capital in Lora and in Fraunces, em
// A drop cap's foot stands on the last baseline it spans. Its default size makes the capital
// as tall as all those line boxes, so it rises above the first line (2.2 mm for five lines
// here); this size puts its top on the first line's capitals instead.
const dropSize = (lines) => pt(((lines - 1) * LEADIN.lead + CAPS * LEADIN.size) / CAPS);
const literary = design([
text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', 'Geist', 8, centred(22), { ...caps(1.7), align: 'center' }),
text('title', '{titleText}', 'Fraunces', 32, at('#kicker', 'below', 0, 4, 'fill'),
{ fontWeight: 300, italic: true, lineHeight: 1.05, align: 'center' }),
{ kind: 'rule', id: 'rule', direction: 'horizontal', thickness: pt(0.8), color: col('accent'),
placement: at('#title', 'below', (MEASURE - 18) / 2, 6, 18) }, // an 18 mm rule, centred
lead(at('#title', 'below', 0, 17, 'fill'), {
lines: 5, fontSize: dropSize(5), fontFamily: 'Fraunces', fontWeight: 400,
color: col('accent'), gap: mm(2.5) }),
]);
O capítulo um não tem estilo, então recebe o design do nível 1, do qual todo estilo parte (a resposta curta mostra o nível e os estilos). Capitulares só existem no texto de design, por isso o primeiro parágrafo do capítulo vem de lead="…" na linha do título e lead() o compõe na abertura; o texto corrido continua embaixo. O motor apoia a letra na quinta linha de base, mas no tamanho padrão a maiúscula tem a altura das cinco caixas de linha juntas e sobe 2,2 mm acima das maiúsculas da primeira linha. dropSize() calcula o tamanho a partir da altura das maiúsculas da Lora e da Fraunces (0,7 em), e assim o alto do M se alinha com elas.
#2 · Emoldure o título com duas caixas
const FRAME = 62; // mm: the outer box's height
const INSET = 3; // mm: the hairline box runs this far inside it
const FLEURON = 44; // mm: the ornament's width, centred under the title
const framed = design([ // array order is paint order: the boxes first, the type on top
{ kind: 'box', id: 'frame', placement: { ...at('container', 'top-left', 0, 0),
size: { width: 'fill', height: mm(FRAME) } },
style: { backgroundColor: col('tint'), borderColor: col('accent'), borderWidth: pt(1.6) } },
{ kind: 'box', id: 'hairline', placement: { ...at('#frame', 'align-top', INSET, INSET),
size: { width: mm(MEASURE - 2 * INSET), height: mm(FRAME - 2 * INSET) } },
style: { borderColor: col('accent'), borderWidth: pt(0.5) } },
text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', 'Geist', 7.5, centred(14), { ...caps(1.6), align: 'center' }),
text('title', '{titleText}', 'Fraunces', 34, at('#kicker', 'below', 0, 3.5, 'fill'),
{ fontWeight: 600, lineHeight: 1.05, align: 'center' }),
// An image element draws a registered resource, never numbered or captioned. Its resourceId
// may be '{attr.photo}' (postext ≥ 1.8): then each heading names its own photo.
{ kind: 'image', id: 'fleuron', resourceId: 'fleuron',
placement: at('#title', 'below', (MEASURE - FLEURON) / 2, 4.5, FLEURON) },
// The section's palette does not reach dropCap.color: name the blue (gotcha: drop-cap-palette).
lead(at('container', 'top-left', 0, FRAME + 9, 'fill'), { lines: 3, fontSize: dropSize(3),
fontFamily: 'Fraunces', fontWeight: 600, color: col('lapis'), gap: mm(2) }),
]);
A ordem do array é a ordem de pintura, então as caixas vêm primeiro e o texto por cima; o florão é um elemento de imagem, que desenha um recurso SVG registrado que nunca é numerado nem citado. Um elemento de imagem também é o jeito de dar a cada capítulo uma foto própria: desde o postext 1.8 seu resourceId aceita marcadores, então com resourceId: '{attr.photo}' um mesmo estilo desenha a foto que cada título nomeia, # The Frame {style="framed" photo="lake"}, como fazem os pratos da ficha de receita (elementos de imagem). O estilo framed da resposta curta usa palette para deixar accent azul nas páginas deste capítulo, de modo que os fios, o chapéu e o fólio do pé saem em azul, e suas margins centralizam a mancha sob a moldura. Na 1.4.1, o color de uma capitular ignora a paleta da seção, por isso a inicial nomeia o azul com col('lapis').
#3 · Empilhe o título e ponha a inicial numa caixa
const FIELD = 130; // mm from the trim: the foot of the colour field
const S_BEARING = 1.2; // mm: the white left of the title's S (0.0365 em at 94 pt)
// The boxed initial: the engine sets the letter, a drop cap on the third baseline; the box
// behind it is fitted by hand, in pt from the top of the lead's first line box.
const BASE = 0.8; // 1.4.1 sets a design text's baseline 0.8 down its line box; no option
// Geist Mono, em: cap height, the advance every capital shares, the white either side of an M
const MONO = { caps: 0.71, advance: 0.6, side: 0.044 };
const BOXED = 3; // lines the initial spans
const capsTop = BASE * LEADIN.lead - CAPS * LEADIN.size; // the first line's capitals: box top
const foot = (BOXED - 1 + BASE) * LEADIN.lead; // the third baseline: the letter's foot
// The M's top sits as far under the box's top as its sides sit in, and the box runs as far
// under its foot, so the colour is as wide on all four sides.
const letter = (foot - capsTop) / (MONO.caps + MONO.side), pad = MONO.side * letter;
const stacked = design([
{ kind: 'box', id: 'field', style: { backgroundColor: col('accent') },
placement: { anchor: { to: 'bleed', edge: 'top-left' }, size: { height: mm(FIELD) } } },
text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', 'Geist', 8, at('container', 'top-left', 0, 4),
{ ...caps(1.8), color: col('paper') }),
// {titleText} keeps the \\ breaks from the Markdown, so each line ends at the writer's \\.
// Moved left by the S's side bearing, so its curve meets the text edge.
text('title', '{titleText}', 'Fraunces', 94,
at('container', 'top-left', -S_BEARING, 15, 'fill'),
{ fontWeight: 900, lineHeight: 0.84, color: col('paper') }),
{ kind: 'box', id: 'initial', style: { backgroundColor: col('accent') }, // behind the lead
placement: { anchor: { to: '#lead', edge: 'align-top' }, offset: { y: pt(capsTop) },
size: { width: pt(MONO.advance * letter), height: pt(foot + pad - capsTop) } } },
// The lead: 8 mm under the field (FIELD is from the trim). Its drop cap's line box
// counts in the opener's height, 3.5 mm under the lead: FIELD is set so it costs no line.
lead(at('container', 'top-left', 0, FIELD - TOP + 8, 'fill'), { lines: BOXED,
fontSize: pt(letter), fontFamily: 'Geist Mono', fontWeight: 700, color: col('paper'),
gap: mm(2.2) }),
]);
A pilha se escreve no Markdown: # Say it \\ out \\ loud. quebra {titleText} em cada \\, enquanto os cabeços e os marcadores do PDF leem o título numa linha só (quebras de linha em títulos). O campo pende do alto da sangria, na largura inteira e com 130 mm de altura, e o parágrafo de abertura começa 8 mm abaixo dele. A inicial em caixa são dois elementos. A capitular do parágrafo de abertura compõe o M em três linhas, e a caixa magenta pintada antes dela é calculada a partir da caixa de linha do parágrafo e das métricas da Geist Mono, de modo que a cor acima e abaixo do M tem a largura do seu espaço lateral.
#4 · Dê ao manual um selo, duas colunas e cabeços próprios
const SPEC = 18; // mm: both side margins, for a 144 mm text block in two columns
const PAD = 1.6; // mm of colour over the badge's figures
const spec = design([
{ kind: 'rule', id: 'top-rule', direction: 'horizontal', thickness: pt(2.4), color: col('ink'),
placement: at('container', 'top-left', 0, 0, 'fill') },
text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', 'Geist Mono', 7.5, at('container', 'top-left', 0, 3.2),
{ ...caps(1.2, 500), color: col('graphite') }),
// The badge's width follows its text, with padding on both sides, so 9 → 10 widens it. Its
// line box holds 1 mm more under the figures than over them, so the foot pads 1 mm less.
text('badge', '{chapterNumber}', 'Geist Mono', 26, at('container', 'top-left', 0, 12),
{ fontWeight: 700, lineHeight: 1, box: { backgroundColor: col('accent'), padding: {
top: mm(PAD), right: mm(2.4), bottom: mm(PAD - 1), left: mm(2.4) } } }),
// Same size and line height as the badge, dropped by its top padding, so the baselines meet.
text('title', '{titleText}', 'Geist', 26, at('#badge', 'right-of', 4, PAD),
{ fontWeight: 700, lineHeight: 1 }),
{ kind: 'rule', id: 'hairline', direction: 'horizontal', thickness: pt(0.5), color: col('ink'),
placement: at('container', 'top-left', 0, 31, 'fill') }, // room for a one-line title
]);
const specHead = (parity) => { // mono labels over the opener's rule, on every page of the section
const [edge, s] = parity === 'even' ? ['top-left', 1] : ['top-right', -1];
const mono = { ...caps(1.1, 500), color: col('graphite'), parity, pages: 'all' };
return [
text(`sp-page-${parity}`, '{pageNumber} / {totalPages}', 'Geist Mono', 7,
at('container', edge, 0, HEAD_Y), mono),
text(`sp-chap-${parity}`, '§ {chapterNumber} · {chapterTitle}', 'Geist Mono', 7,
at('container', edge, s * 16, HEAD_Y), mono),
];
};
O selo é um elemento de texto com preenchimento e espaçamento interno, mas sem largura, então a largura acompanha {chapterNumber}, e o título é posicionado right-of ele: no capítulo 10 o selo cresce um algarismo, 5,5 mm, e o título anda junto. O espaçamento inferior é 1 mm menor que o superior porque a caixa de linha guarda esse milímetro a mais embaixo dos algarismos, e assim o 4 fica centralizado. No estilo spec, layout põe a seção em duas colunas e o span: 'page' do nível estende a abertura sobre as duas. Suas margins alargam a mancha para 144 mm, bodyStyle compõe Geist em bandeira sobre a grade de 14,5 pt do livro, header substitui os cabeços do livro e um footer vazio tira o fólio.
#5 · Deixe espaço para a coda
const quiet = design([ // the kicker is in the accent, which this style turns graphite
text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', 'Geist', 7.5, at('container', 'top-left', 0, 92),
caps(1.6, 500)),
text('title', '{titleText}', 'Fraunces', 26, at('#kicker', 'below', 0, 3),
{ fontWeight: 300, lineHeight: 1.1 }),
// One line: the letter stands on the first baseline and rises into the white above it.
lead(at('#title', 'below', 0, 16, 'fill'), { lines: 1, fontFamily: 'Fraunces',
fontWeight: 300, fontSize: pt(46), color: col('graphite'), gap: mm(1.2) },
{ fontSize: pt(QUIET.size), lineHeight: QUIET.lead / QUIET.size }),
]);
const tiny = (parity, edge) => text(`tiny-${parity}`, '{pageNumber}', 'Geist', 6.5,
at('container', edge, 0, -12), { fontWeight: 500, color: col('muted'), parity });
const tinyFolio = { elements: [tiny('even', 'bottom-left'), tiny('odd', 'bottom-right')] };
O chapéu pende 92 mm abaixo do alto da mancha, e a inicial elevada é uma capitular de uma linha: o pé dela se apoia na primeira linha de base e, com 46 pt, ela sobe para o branco de cima em vez de afundar no parágrafo. No estilo quiet, margins estreitam a medida para 106 mm, bodyStyle compõe o texto em bandeira a 12,5/17,5 pt, footer troca o fólio do pé por um pequeno no canto externo e palette deixa o chapéu cinza. Nada nesta página imprime número de capítulo, então numbered: false só apareceria num capítulo acrescentado depois da coda, que continuaria sendo o quinto.
A receita completa
// ═══ Postext Cookbook · Nº 017 · Five chapter openers in one book ═════════════════ // https://postext.dev/en/cookbook/five-chapter-openers // Code: MIT · Text: original (CC BY 4.0) · Ornament: generated in code (CC BY 4.0) // Fonts: Lora, Fraunces, Geist, Geist Mono (SIL OFL 1.1) · Needs postext ≥ 1.4.1 // A small book about openers, each chapter set in the one it describes. Every heading style // brings its opener and palette; three move the margins, two bring their own type and folios. import { buildDocument, renderPageToCanvas, clearMeasurementCache, registerResourceImage, } from 'https://esm.sh/postext'; const LANG = 'en'; // @lang: the language of the sample document ('en' | 'es') const RECIPE = 'five-chapter-openers'; // ─── 1 · Design ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // #region answer: one opener per chapter: the level's own, then heading styles by name // A heading line picks a style by id, and its attributes feed the opener's {attr.…} texts: // # The Frame {style="framed" kicker="Chapter the Second" lead="Long before there…"} // A style overrides the level fields it names (here the opener) and, until the next level-1 // heading, the section fields it names; what it leaves out comes from the level and document. const level1 = () => ({ level: 1, // span 'page' opens each chapter at the head of a new page and runs its opener across // every column (chapter four has two). Any headings object drops the default break to a // recto (gotcha: headings-drop-h1-break): restate the side, 'any' for short chapters. span: 'page', breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'any' }, marginBottom: pt(LEAD), // one line of air between the opener and the text advancedDesign: literary }); // chapter one, unstyled: the book's own opener const headingStyles = () => [ // factories, called by config() once every design exists // Each style brings its opener and swaps 'accent' for a colour of its own, on its pages. { id: 'framed', advancedDesign: framed, palette: { accent: palette.lapis }, margins: { left: mm(EVEN), right: mm(EVEN) } }, // a centred text block { id: 'stacked', advancedDesign: stacked, palette: { accent: palette.magenta } }, { id: 'spec', advancedDesign: spec, palette: { accent: palette.signal }, marginBottom: pt(0), // the hairline under the title is the separator margins: { left: mm(SPEC), right: mm(SPEC) }, // a 144 mm text block layout: { layoutType: 'double', gutterWidth: mm(7) }, bodyStyle: { fontFamily: 'Geist', fontSize: pt(9.8), textAlign: 'left' }, // on the grid header: { elements: [...specHead('even'), ...specHead('odd')] }, footer: { elements: [] } }, // no folio at the foot: the head gives the page { id: 'quiet', numbered: false, // a coda: it advances no chapter counter advancedDesign: quiet, palette: { accent: palette.graphite }, footer: tinyFolio, margins: { left: mm(QUIET.inner), right: mm(QUIET.outer) }, // a 106 mm measure bodyStyle: { fontSize: pt(QUIET.size), lineHeight: pt(QUIET.lead), textAlign: 'left' } }, ]; // hook-up in config(): headings: { levels: [level1(), …] }, headingStyles() // #endregion const palette = { // every colour in the config links to one of these by id ink: '#16181c', // text: a cool near-black accent: '#8c1c13', // the one accent of a section; the book's own is a rubric red tint: '#f6f0e3', // the frame's cream muted: '#6b6760', // running heads and the colophon paper: '#ffffff', // type on colour lapis: '#24427a', magenta: '#a3155e', signal: '#ff5a1f', graphite: '#4a4f57', }; // col(id): a palette-linked colour. It carries the hex too, because 1.4.1 paints design // elements from the hex (gotcha: palette-skips-designs). const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id], model: 'hex', paletteId: id }); const colorPalette = [ ...Object.entries(palette).map(([id, hex]) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } })), // The engine's defaults link to 'main-color': point it at the accent, so nothing prints blue. { id: 'main-color', name: 'accent (defaults)', value: { hex: palette.accent, model: 'hex' } }, ]; const TRIM = { w: 180, h: 240 }; // mm const TOP = 22, INNER = 20, OUTER = 36; // margins, mm: a wide outer margin keeps 124 mm lines const MEASURE = TRIM.w - INNER - OUTER; // mm const EVEN = (TRIM.w - MEASURE) / 2; // mm: equal side margins, for the framed chapter const LEAD = 14.5; // body leading, pt: the baseline grid const LEADIN = { size: 12, lead: 17 }; // pt: the opening paragraph each opener sets itself const QUIET = { size: 12.5, lead: 17.5, inner: 30, outer: 44 }; // the coda: pt, and mm margins // Design-slot shorthands. at(): a placement from an anchor's edge, x and y in mm. const at = (to, edge, x, y, width) => ({ anchor: { to, edge }, offset: { x: mm(x), y: mm(y) }, ...(width !== undefined && { size: { width: width === 'fill' ? 'fill' : mm(width) } }) }); // Design text wraps; left alone it ends in '…' (gotcha: overflow-ellipsis-default). A number // lineHeight multiplies the size, never pt() (gotcha: design-lineheight-multiple). const text = (id, content, fontFamily, size, placement, extra = {}) => ({ kind: 'text', id, content, fontFamily, fontSize: pt(size), color: col('ink'), align: 'left', overflow: 'wrap', placement, ...extra }); const caps = (tracking, weight = 600) => ({ fontWeight: weight, letterSpacing: pt(tracking), textTransform: 'uppercase', color: col('accent') }); const centred = (y) => at('container', 'top', 0, y, 'fill'); // a full-width line, centred // No minHeight: the text starts under the lowest element of each opener. const design = (elements) => ({ enabled: true, slot: { elements } }); // #region literary: chapter one, the level's own opener: a five-line drop in rubric red // The opening paragraph comes from lead="…" on the heading line: drop caps exist only in // design text, so the lead is part of the opener (gap: body-drop-cap). const lead = (placement, dropCap, extra = {}) => text('lead', '{attr.lead}', 'Lora', LEADIN.size, placement, { lineHeight: LEADIN.lead / LEADIN.size, dropCap, ...extra }); const CAPS = 0.7; // the height of a capital in Lora and in Fraunces, em // A drop cap's foot stands on the last baseline it spans. Its default size makes the capital // as tall as all those line boxes, so it rises above the first line (2.2 mm for five lines // here); this size puts its top on the first line's capitals instead. const dropSize = (lines) => pt(((lines - 1) * LEADIN.lead + CAPS * LEADIN.size) / CAPS); const literary = design([ text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', 'Geist', 8, centred(22), { ...caps(1.7), align: 'center' }), text('title', '{titleText}', 'Fraunces', 32, at('#kicker', 'below', 0, 4, 'fill'), { fontWeight: 300, italic: true, lineHeight: 1.05, align: 'center' }), { kind: 'rule', id: 'rule', direction: 'horizontal', thickness: pt(0.8), color: col('accent'), placement: at('#title', 'below', (MEASURE - 18) / 2, 6, 18) }, // an 18 mm rule, centred lead(at('#title', 'below', 0, 17, 'fill'), { lines: 5, fontSize: dropSize(5), fontFamily: 'Fraunces', fontWeight: 400, color: col('accent'), gap: mm(2.5) }), ]); // #endregion // #region framed: a cartouche of two boxes around the title, an ornament, a three-line initial const FRAME = 62; // mm: the outer box's height const INSET = 3; // mm: the hairline box runs this far inside it const FLEURON = 44; // mm: the ornament's width, centred under the title const framed = design([ // array order is paint order: the boxes first, the type on top { kind: 'box', id: 'frame', placement: { ...at('container', 'top-left', 0, 0), size: { width: 'fill', height: mm(FRAME) } }, style: { backgroundColor: col('tint'), borderColor: col('accent'), borderWidth: pt(1.6) } }, { kind: 'box', id: 'hairline', placement: { ...at('#frame', 'align-top', INSET, INSET), size: { width: mm(MEASURE - 2 * INSET), height: mm(FRAME - 2 * INSET) } }, style: { borderColor: col('accent'), borderWidth: pt(0.5) } }, text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', 'Geist', 7.5, centred(14), { ...caps(1.6), align: 'center' }), text('title', '{titleText}', 'Fraunces', 34, at('#kicker', 'below', 0, 3.5, 'fill'), { fontWeight: 600, lineHeight: 1.05, align: 'center' }), // An image element draws a registered resource, never numbered or captioned. Its resourceId // may be '{attr.photo}' (postext ≥ 1.8): then each heading names its own photo. { kind: 'image', id: 'fleuron', resourceId: 'fleuron', placement: at('#title', 'below', (MEASURE - FLEURON) / 2, 4.5, FLEURON) }, // The section's palette does not reach dropCap.color: name the blue (gotcha: drop-cap-palette). lead(at('container', 'top-left', 0, FRAME + 9, 'fill'), { lines: 3, fontSize: dropSize(3), fontFamily: 'Fraunces', fontWeight: 600, color: col('lapis'), gap: mm(2) }), ]); // #endregion // #region stacked: a colour field, the title's words stacked, a boxed initial const FIELD = 130; // mm from the trim: the foot of the colour field const S_BEARING = 1.2; // mm: the white left of the title's S (0.0365 em at 94 pt) // The boxed initial: the engine sets the letter, a drop cap on the third baseline; the box // behind it is fitted by hand, in pt from the top of the lead's first line box. const BASE = 0.8; // 1.4.1 sets a design text's baseline 0.8 down its line box; no option // Geist Mono, em: cap height, the advance every capital shares, the white either side of an M const MONO = { caps: 0.71, advance: 0.6, side: 0.044 }; const BOXED = 3; // lines the initial spans const capsTop = BASE * LEADIN.lead - CAPS * LEADIN.size; // the first line's capitals: box top const foot = (BOXED - 1 + BASE) * LEADIN.lead; // the third baseline: the letter's foot // The M's top sits as far under the box's top as its sides sit in, and the box runs as far // under its foot, so the colour is as wide on all four sides. const letter = (foot - capsTop) / (MONO.caps + MONO.side), pad = MONO.side * letter; const stacked = design([ { kind: 'box', id: 'field', style: { backgroundColor: col('accent') }, placement: { anchor: { to: 'bleed', edge: 'top-left' }, size: { height: mm(FIELD) } } }, text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', 'Geist', 8, at('container', 'top-left', 0, 4), { ...caps(1.8), color: col('paper') }), // {titleText} keeps the \\ breaks from the Markdown, so each line ends at the writer's \\. // Moved left by the S's side bearing, so its curve meets the text edge. text('title', '{titleText}', 'Fraunces', 94, at('container', 'top-left', -S_BEARING, 15, 'fill'), { fontWeight: 900, lineHeight: 0.84, color: col('paper') }), { kind: 'box', id: 'initial', style: { backgroundColor: col('accent') }, // behind the lead placement: { anchor: { to: '#lead', edge: 'align-top' }, offset: { y: pt(capsTop) }, size: { width: pt(MONO.advance * letter), height: pt(foot + pad - capsTop) } } }, // The lead: 8 mm under the field (FIELD is from the trim). Its drop cap's line box // counts in the opener's height, 3.5 mm under the lead: FIELD is set so it costs no line. lead(at('container', 'top-left', 0, FIELD - TOP + 8, 'fill'), { lines: BOXED, fontSize: pt(letter), fontFamily: 'Geist Mono', fontWeight: 700, color: col('paper'), gap: mm(2.2) }), ]); // #endregion // The book's running heads and folios, anchored to the text block, whatever its margins. const HEAD_Y = 14; // mm from the trim to the running heads const label = (id, content, parity, edge, x, extra = {}) => text(id, content, 'Geist', 7.5, at('container', edge, x, HEAD_Y), { ...caps(1.4, 500), color: col('muted'), parity, pages: 'body', ...extra }); const folio = { fontWeight: 700, color: col('ink'), letterSpacing: pt(0.4) }; // Title on the verso, chapter on the recto, folios at the outer corners. const header = { elements: [ label('verso-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'even', 'top-left', 0, folio), label('verso-title', '{title}', 'even', 'top-left', 9), label('recto-title', '{chapterTitle}', 'odd', 'top-right', -9), label('recto-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'odd', 'top-right', 0, folio), ] }; // Openers carry a drop folio instead, centred under the text block, in the section's accent. const footer = { elements: [text('drop-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'Geist', 7.5, at('container', 'top', 0, 9), { ...folio, color: col('accent'), pages: 'opener' })] }; // #region spec: a ruled title, a number badge that widens with the number, two columns const SPEC = 18; // mm: both side margins, for a 144 mm text block in two columns const PAD = 1.6; // mm of colour over the badge's figures const spec = design([ { kind: 'rule', id: 'top-rule', direction: 'horizontal', thickness: pt(2.4), color: col('ink'), placement: at('container', 'top-left', 0, 0, 'fill') }, text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', 'Geist Mono', 7.5, at('container', 'top-left', 0, 3.2), { ...caps(1.2, 500), color: col('graphite') }), // The badge's width follows its text, with padding on both sides, so 9 → 10 widens it. Its // line box holds 1 mm more under the figures than over them, so the foot pads 1 mm less. text('badge', '{chapterNumber}', 'Geist Mono', 26, at('container', 'top-left', 0, 12), { fontWeight: 700, lineHeight: 1, box: { backgroundColor: col('accent'), padding: { top: mm(PAD), right: mm(2.4), bottom: mm(PAD - 1), left: mm(2.4) } } }), // Same size and line height as the badge, dropped by its top padding, so the baselines meet. text('title', '{titleText}', 'Geist', 26, at('#badge', 'right-of', 4, PAD), { fontWeight: 700, lineHeight: 1 }), { kind: 'rule', id: 'hairline', direction: 'horizontal', thickness: pt(0.5), color: col('ink'), placement: at('container', 'top-left', 0, 31, 'fill') }, // room for a one-line title ]); const specHead = (parity) => { // mono labels over the opener's rule, on every page of the section const [edge, s] = parity === 'even' ? ['top-left', 1] : ['top-right', -1]; const mono = { ...caps(1.1, 500), color: col('graphite'), parity, pages: 'all' }; return [ text(`sp-page-${parity}`, '{pageNumber} / {totalPages}', 'Geist Mono', 7, at('container', edge, 0, HEAD_Y), mono), text(`sp-chap-${parity}`, '§ {chapterNumber} · {chapterTitle}', 'Geist Mono', 7, at('container', edge, s * 16, HEAD_Y), mono), ]; }; // #endregion // #region quiet: the coda: a title far down the page, a raised initial, a folio at the side const quiet = design([ // the kicker is in the accent, which this style turns graphite text('kicker', '{attr.kicker}', 'Geist', 7.5, at('container', 'top-left', 0, 92), caps(1.6, 500)), text('title', '{titleText}', 'Fraunces', 26, at('#kicker', 'below', 0, 3), { fontWeight: 300, lineHeight: 1.1 }), // One line: the letter stands on the first baseline and rises into the white above it. lead(at('#title', 'below', 0, 16, 'fill'), { lines: 1, fontFamily: 'Fraunces', fontWeight: 300, fontSize: pt(46), color: col('graphite'), gap: mm(1.2) }, { fontSize: pt(QUIET.size), lineHeight: QUIET.lead / QUIET.size }), ]); const tiny = (parity, edge) => text(`tiny-${parity}`, '{pageNumber}', 'Geist', 6.5, at('container', edge, 0, -12), { fontWeight: 500, color: col('muted'), parity }); const tinyFolio = { elements: [tiny('even', 'bottom-left'), tiny('odd', 'bottom-right')] }; // #endregion const config = () => ({ // a factory: configs are cached by identity (gotcha: config-cache-identity) colorPalette, locale: t({ en: 'en-us', es: 'es' }), // hyphenation, by exact code (gotcha: hyphenation-locales) page: { width: mm(TRIM.w), height: mm(TRIM.h), dpi: 150, // 150 dpi: a screen edition margins: { top: mm(TOP), bottom: mm(22), left: mm(INNER), right: mm(OUTER), mirror: true } }, layout: { layoutType: 'single' }, bodyText: { fontFamily: 'Lora', fontSize: pt(10.8), lineHeight: pt(LEAD), color: col('ink'), boldColor: col('ink'), italicColor: col('ink'), referenceColor: col('ink'), textAlign: 'justify', firstLineIndent: mm(4.5), indentAfterHeading: false, minWordSpacing: 0.8, maxWordSpacing: 1.6 }, // an even texture on 124 mm lines headings: { fontFamily: 'Geist', color: col('ink'), levels: [level1(), { level: 2, fontSize: pt(11.5), lineHeight: pt(LEAD), fontWeight: 700, // the manual's numberingTemplate: '{1}.{2}', marginTop: pt(LEAD), marginBottom: pt(0) }] }, headingStyles: headingStyles(), paragraphStyles: [{ id: 'colophon', fontFamily: 'Geist', fontSize: pt(7), lineHeight: pt(10), color: col('muted'), textAlign: 'left', firstLineIndent: pt(0), marginTop: pt(2 * LEAD) }], header, footer, }); // ─── 2 · Content ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── const markdown = String.raw`---Amostra em Markdown · 69 linhas · content.en.md
title: "Five Ways to Begin" subtitle: "Notes on the chapter opener" --- # The Voice {kicker="Chapter One" lead="Most books begin quietly. A novel opens each chapter with a number, sometimes a title, some white space and then the first sentence, set in the same face as the rest of the text. The arrangement is meant to go unnoticed. It tells a reader who has finished one chapter that the next one has started, and lets them go on reading without stopping to look at the page."} The one ornament the novel has kept is the initial. It goes back to the rubricator, the scribe who went through a finished manuscript adding the headings and the capital letters in red ink; the word *rubric* comes from *rubrica*, the Latin for red ochre. The custom survived into print. Many early printed books leave a blank square where a chapter begins, sometimes with a small guide letter printed in it, so that a rubricator could paint the initial by hand once the sheets came off the press. Some copies were finished in gold and colour and others never were; in those the squares are still empty but for the guide letter. A drop cap is positioned from the lines beside it. Its top aligns with the capitals of the first line, and its foot stands on the baseline of the last line it spans, so the letter sits inside the text block. The lines it displaces all start the same distance from its right edge. Set above the capitals, the letter looks pasted on; set below them, it seems to sink into the paragraph. Five lines is a deep drop, usually kept for the first chapter of a long book. Two or three lines are more common, and many novels have no initial at all and mark the start of a chapter with the white space above the first line. A plain opener still follows exact measurements. The white space above the title, which printers call the sinkage, is the same depth on every opener, so the titles sit at one height as the pages turn, whether a title is one word long or eight. The first line of text falls on the same grid line as in the rest of the book, so that the lines on facing pages align when the book lies open. A sinkage that changes by a few millimetres from one chapter to the next shows as soon as you flick through the book. The chapter number can be spelled out, as it is here, printed in figures or, for an older look, set in roman numerals, and a book keeps to the form it chooses. Some novels leave out the word *Chapter* and print the number alone above the text, which suits a book of many short chapters. Others give each chapter a title and no number. The title is then the only element of the opener, so it is set a size larger, with more space above it. After the initial, many books set the rest of the first line, or the first phrase, in small capitals, which eases the step down from the large letter to the size of the text; others continue in roman. The first paragraph is not indented. An indent separates a paragraph from the one before it, and the first paragraph of a chapter has none before it. Chapters of a novel usually start on a new page, and in a long book often on a right-hand page, even when that leaves the page before it blank. In a novel of twenty chapters this can add about ten blank pages. Publishers accept them because every opener then falls on the same side of the book, and a reader looking for a chapter can find it by riffling the pages. The opener has no running head. The chapter title is already on the page and a head above it would repeat it, so the page number moves to the foot of the page instead, centred under the text. Printers call this a drop folio. Many books leave it out as well, and the opener is then counted but carries no printed number, a blind folio. On the chapter’s second page the running heads come back, the book’s title on the left-hand page and the chapter’s on the right, and the folios return to the outer corners. From there to the end of the chapter the text keeps to the same grid. A chapter that ends on its first page never shows the running heads at all. This book sets each chapter in the opener it describes, and so far it has followed the conventions of the novel. The next four chapters depart from them: a framed title for a gift edition, a title stacked on a colour field for a magazine, a numbered and ruled opener for a manual, and a title set low on an empty page for a coda. # The Frame {style="framed" kicker="Chapter the Second" lead="Long before books had title pages, the start of a text was marked in the manuscript itself, with a painted border round the first leaf and a large coloured initial, often under a band of leaves or knotwork."} The first printers took the practice over from the manuscripts they imitated and made it mechanical. They kept cases of cast ornaments in the shape of flowers, leaves and knots, which the trade calls fleurons, and built borders of any size from them, piece by piece, as a mason builds a wall. Initials were woodcuts, each letter cut into a block of foliage. A thrifty shop kept a few blocks with an empty centre, into which any capital from the case could be set; printers called such a block a factotum, from the Latin for “do everything”. A frame now appears mostly on reissued classics and anniversary editions, books bought to be given. Here a heavy rule outside and a hairline 3 mm inside it hold the title the way a mount holds a print. The type inside the frame is centred, with a single ornament below it. Colour goes on the frame, the kicker and the initial, and the text stays black. Below the frame the text has the face, size and measure of the rest of the book. Only the margins change, so that the text block is centred under the frame. # Say it \\ out \\ loud. {style="stacked" kicker="Chapter Three · Magazines, posters, manifestos" lead="Magazines, posters and manifestos give their first page to the title, set as large as the page allows and often with no picture at all."} A stacked title has few words, one phrase to each line, and the writer decides where the lines break. Left to wrap wherever the measure runs out, a title can split an article from its noun and end a line on *the*; broken where a speaker would pause, it reads as a headline. It needs a heavy face and empty space around it. Here the colour field gives it a background that bleeds off the top and sides of the page. Below the field the text returns to reading size, and only its first letter, reversed out in white from a magenta square, repeats the colour. # Number Everything {style="spec" kicker="Manuals · Standards · Datasheets"} Few people read a manual from the first page to the last. They open it at the section they need, often with the machine it describes in the other hand, and close it once the question is answered. The chapter number is what they write in a margin or quote in an email, so the opener sets it large, in figures of equal width, at the top left, where the eye starts. ## Numbers before names Readers cite a section by its number. A reference to section 4.2 still works after the section’s title has been reworded, which a reference to “the section on columns” may not. Headings are numbered down to the second level, and the number of a withdrawn section is never given to a new one, so an old reference cannot lead to different text. The badge that carries the chapter number widens with it. One- and two-figure numbers get the same padding on either side, and the title moves along to make room, so chapter 10 has the same gap between badge and title as chapter 9. At this size each extra figure adds 5.5 mm. ## Two columns, short lines Technical text is often set in two columns because a short line is easier to scan. Here each column is 68.5 mm wide, about forty characters of this text. A reader looking for one value can run down a narrow column, and at the end of each line the eye finds the start of the next without losing its place. The text is ragged right, so every word space keeps its natural width, and a long string such as a part number never stretches the spaces of the line before it. The title runs across both columns. It has to be read before anything else on the page, and in the first column alone it would look like one more paragraph. ## Rules and colour The rules divide the page. A heavy rule across the top of the text block marks the start of the chapter, and a hairline separates the title from the text. Both run the full width of the text block, across the two columns. The running head above them gives the chapter and the page number over the total, so a reader can see how far into the document they are without turning to the contents. The only colour is the orange of the badge, and the figure printed on it is black. Everything else a reader has to read is black or dark grey, so a black-and-white photocopy of the page loses no information. # Leave Room {style="quiet" kicker="Coda" lead="Some books need no signal at all. A collection of poems or a memoir can use its openers to slow the reader down."} This coda does it with white space: its title starts more than 90 mm down the text block, and its initial rises above the first line into the empty page. :::paragraphs{style="colophon"} *Five Ways to Begin* is set in Lora, Fraunces, Geist and Geist Mono (SIL Open Font License). Text and ornament: CC BY 4.0. :::`; // content.<lang>.md, inlined by the Cookbook // #region art: the fleuron, a printer's flower drawn in paths in the frame's blue function fleuron(ink) { // two scrolls with a leaf above and below, a rosette between them const scroll = 'M51 14.2C42 9.5 31 8.6 22 11.4C16 13.2 11.6 13 9.6 10.2C8.2 7.8 10.2 5.3 13 5.8' + 'C11 6.8 10.6 8.8 12 9.9C14.6 11.4 18 10.2 21.6 9.1C30.6 6.4 42 7.6 51 12.4Z' + 'M36 11.4C33.4 15.6 28.6 18.4 23.4 18.8C26.4 15 31 12.4 36 11.4Z' // the leaf below + 'M31 8.3C29.6 5.2 26.4 3.4 23 3.5C25.2 5.8 27.8 7.6 31 8.3Z'; // the leaf above const petal = 'M60 13.4C58.2 10.6 58.2 7.2 60 4.4C61.8 7.2 61.8 10.6 60 13.4Z'; const turn = (a) => `transform="rotate(${a} 60 13.4)"`; const rosette = [0, 90, 180, 270].map((a) => `<path d="${petal}" ${turn(a)}/>`).join('') + [45, 135, 225, 315].map((a) => `<circle cx="60" cy="9.6" r="1.1" ${turn(a)}/>`).join(''); return '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="720" height="162" viewBox="0 0 120 27">' + `<g fill="${ink}"><path d="${scroll}"/>` // the right half is the left one mirrored + `<path d="${scroll}" transform="translate(120 0) scale(-1 1)"/>${rosette}` + '<circle cx="4.5" cy="10.5" r="1.5"/><circle cx="115.5" cy="10.5" r="1.5"/></g></svg>'; } // #endregion const resources = [{ id: 'fleuron', typeId: 'figure', kind: 'svg', createdAt: 0, updatedAt: 0, svg: { fileId: 'fleuron.svg', width: 720, height: 162 }, altText: t({ en: 'A printer’s flower: a four-petalled rosette between two leafy scrolls.', es: 'Un florón de imprenta: una roseta de cuatro pétalos entre dos volutas con hojas.' }) }]; // ─── 3 · Fonts ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── const FONTS = { // text, display, label and figure faces (gotcha: fonts-first) Lora: ['400', '400i'], Fraunces: ['300', '300i', '400', '600', '900'], Geist: ['400', '400i', '500', '600', '700'], 'Geist Mono': ['500', '700'] }; // ─── 4 · Build & show ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── await loadFonts(FONTS, markdown); await loadSvg('fleuron.svg', fleuron(palette.lapis)); // a picture's colours are fixed when drawn const doc = await buildWithFonts(() => buildDocument({ markdown, resources }, config()), markdown); showPages(doc, { title: t({ en: 'Five chapter openers', es: 'Cinco aperturas de capítulo' }) });Kit · core, fonts, viewer, images: igual em todas as receitas · 271 linhas
// ─── Kit ── helpers shared by every Cookbook recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ───── // ─── Kit · core v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook function mm(value) { return { value, unit: 'mm' }; } function pt(value) { return { value, unit: 'pt' }; } function em(value) { return { value, unit: 'em' }; } /** The sample language's string: t({ en: 'Figure', es: 'Figura' }). */ function t(strings) { return strings[LANG] ?? Object.values(strings)[0]; } /** A file in this recipe's assets folder, served from the Postext repo by jsDelivr. */ function asset(file) { return `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/drnachio/postext@main/cookbook/${RECIPE}/assets/${file}`; } // ─── Kit · fonts v2 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook // Postext measures with the loaded faces and caches the widths: load every face // before the first build, from Fontsource, the files the PDF embeds too. /** faces = { 'Family Name': ['400', '400i', '700'] }. `text` is the sample: * č ł † α χ also load latin-ext and greek files (kitSubsetsFor). With * `optional`, a face Fontsource does not ship is skipped instead of failing. * Resolves to the number of faces added. */ async function loadFonts(faces, text = '', { optional = false } = {}) { kitStatus('Loading fonts…'); const ranges = { latin: 'U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,' + 'U+2000-206F,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD', 'latin-ext': 'U+0100-02BA,U+02BD-02C5,U+02C7-02CC,U+02CE-02D7,U+02DD-02FF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,' + 'U+1D00-1DBF,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20C0,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF', greek: 'U+0370-03FF', }; const jobs = []; let added = 0; for (const [family, specs] of Object.entries(faces)) { const id = fontsourceId(family); const todo = [...new Set(specs)].map((spec) => [parseInt(spec, 10), spec.endsWith('i') ? 'italic' : 'normal']) .filter(([weight, style]) => !hasFace(family, weight, style)); // before any await const meta = optional || /[^\0-ÿ]/u.test(text) ? await fontsourceMeta(family) : null; const subsets = ['latin', ...kitSubsetsFor(text, meta)]; for (const [weight, style] of todo) { if (optional && !(meta?.weights.includes(weight) && meta.styles.includes(style))) continue; for (const subset of subsets) { const url = `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fontsource/${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} ${style}`); })); } } } await Promise.all(jobs).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; }); return added; } /** Runs `build` and loads any face the pages use that FONTS missed (a regular * one with a warning), then clears the measurement cache and builds again. */ async function buildWithFonts(build, text = '') { const tried = new Set(); for (let round = 0; round < 3; round++) { kitStatus('Laying out…'); await new Promise(requestAnimationFrame); // let the status paint first const result = await Promise.resolve().then(build).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; }); const wanted = { base: {}, variants: {} }; for (const { font, base } of [result].flat().flatMap(fontStringsOf)) { const { family, weight, style } = parseFont(font); const key = `${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 ${JSON.stringify(wanted.base)}: loading them.`); } const added = await loadFonts(wanted.base, text) + await loadFonts(wanted.variants, text, { optional: true }); if (added === 0) return result; clearMeasurementCache(); } throw new Error('The fonts did not settle after three builds.'); } /** Every font string of the layout; `base` marks a block's own face. */ function fontStringsOf(doc) { const found = new Map(); const walk = (node) => { if (!node || typeof node !== 'object') return; if (Array.isArray(node)) { node.forEach(walk); return; } for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(node)) { if (typeof value === 'string' && /fontString$/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' }; } /** 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(/^["']|["']$/g, '') !== family) continue; const [low, high = low] = face.weight.split(' ').map(Number); if (weight >= low && weight <= high) return true; } return false; } /** The files beyond latin `text` needs that `meta`'s family ships. */ function kitSubsetsFor(text, meta) { return [[/[Ā-˿ᴀ-ᶿḀ-ỿ†ℓⱠ-Ɀ꜠-ꟿ]/u, 'latin-ext'], [/[Ͱ-Ͽ]/u, 'greek']] .filter(([re, x]) => re.test(text) && meta?.subsets?.includes(x)).map(([, x]) => x); } /** Fontsource's id for a family: 'Source Serif 4' → 'source-serif-4'. */ function fontsourceId(family) { return family.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '-'); } /** The family's Fontsource metadata (weights, styles, subsets), or null. */ function fontsourceMeta(family) { fontsourceMeta.cache ??= new Map(); const id = fontsourceId(family); if (!fontsourceMeta.cache.has(id)) { fontsourceMeta.cache.set(id, fetch(`https://api.fontsource.org/v1/fonts/${id}`) .then((res) => (res.ok ? res.json() : null), () => null)); } return fontsourceMeta.cache.get(id); } // ─── Kit · viewer v1 ── 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. */ 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 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
O script.js montado funciona como está: cole-o como script de módulo em qualquer página ou abra a receita no CodePen. Pasta da receita no GitHub ↗ (abre em uma nova aba)
Variações
#Mande cada capítulo para uma página ímpar
Com 'odd', todo capítulo abre numa página da direita e os capítulos dois a cinco ganham cada um uma página par em branco antes, então o livro passa de 7 para 11 páginas.
- breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'any' },
+ breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'odd' },#Deixe a capitular em três linhas
dropSize() recebe o número de linhas, então uma capitular de três linhas também se alinha com as maiúsculas da primeira linha.
- lines: 5, fontSize: dropSize(5), fontFamily: 'Fraunces', fontWeight: 400,
+ lines: 3, fontSize: dropSize(3), fontFamily: 'Fraunces', fontWeight: 400,Erros comuns
Erro comum
Valores de atributo: sem { ou }; aspas simples se tiver "
Um valor de atributo termina na chave de fechamento, por isso não pode conter { nem }. Um valor que contém aspas duplas vai entre aspas simples; o cifrão não causa problema. Atributos de título →
Erro comum
A paleta de uma seção ou parte não recolore a capitular
No postext 1.4.1, a paleta de um estilo de título, assim como a de uma parte, recolore nas suas páginas as cores vinculadas à paleta dos elementos de design (textos, fios, caixas, fundos e bordas de caixa), mas não dropCap.color: a capitular mantém o hex escrito na configuração. Dê à capitular a cor própria da seção, ou deixe dropCap.color sem definir para que ela use a cor do seu elemento de texto. Capitulares nas aberturas →
Erro comum
Uma paleta trocada não chega aos elementos de design nem à cor das referências
postext 1.4.1 aplica colorPalette aos estilos de texto (corpo, títulos, listas, legendas, tabelas, boxes), mas não aos elementos de cabeçalhos, rodapés, aberturas e páginas de parte, nem a bodyText.referenceColor: eles mantêm o hex escrito ao lado do seu paletteId. Se você trocar a paleta, para uma edição de tela escura ou para mudar as cores, reescreva cada cor vinculada a partir de colorPalette antes de compor. Paleta de cores semântica →
Erro comum
Qualquer objeto headings desativa a quebra de página do H1
Por padrão, um H1 salta para uma página ímpar (always-odd), mas passar qualquer objeto headings redefine esse padrão, então os capítulos ficam emendados e span: 'page' não faz nada. Declare de novo headings.levels[0].breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity } em toda configuração. Capítulos que abrem em página ímpar →
Erro comum
O excesso de texto de design é 'ellipsis-end' por padrão
Um elemento de texto de design que não cabe na sua largura termina em reticências por padrão. Use overflow: 'wrap' nos títulos que devem passar para mais linhas. Textos, fios e caixas nos designs de página →
Erro comum
O lineHeight de um texto de design é um múltiplo, nunca uma medida
Num slot de design, o lineHeight de um elemento de texto multiplica o tamanho da fonte (lineHeight: 1.05). No postext 1.4.1, uma medida como pt(15) não é rejeitada: a altura da abertura dá NaN, o espaço que ela reserva, minHeight incluído, se perde sem aviso e o texto passa por baixo do título. Textos, fios e caixas nos designs de página →
Erro comum
A configuração fica em cache pela identidade: crie um objeto novo
O motor guarda em cache as configurações resolvidas pela identidade do objeto, então alterar uma configuração no próprio objeto e compor de novo reaproveita o resultado antigo. Crie um objeto novo a cada composição; por isso a configuração de uma receita é uma função, config(). Páginas em um canvas →
Erro comum
Carregue todas as fontes antes do layout
O motor de layout mede o texto com as fontes que o navegador carregou e guarda as larguras em cache, então uma fonte que chega depois da primeira composição deixa quebras de linha erradas e um PDF que não corresponde mais à tela. Carregue antes todos os pesos e estilos e chame clearMeasurementCache() antes de recompor quando alguma chegar atrasada. Fontes antes da diagramação →
Erro comum
Só 8 idiomas têm hifenização, com o código exato
A hifenização existe para en-us, es, fr, de, it, pt, ca e nl, com o código exato: 'es-ES' ou qualquer outro idioma passa sem aviso para o inglês americano. Hifenização e idioma do documento →
- O texto de design nunca é justificado, então um parágrafo de abertura sai em bandeira mesmo num livro justificado. Dê a ele um tamanho próprio (aqui 12/17 pt contra os 10,8/14,5 do texto) para que a bandeira pareça proposital.
- A inicial em caixa está ajustada à mão para Lora 12/17, para o M da Geist Mono e para a linha de base do texto de design, que a 1.4.1 põe a 0,8 da caixa de linha (
BASE) e não expõe. Se você mudar a fonte, o tamanho ou a entrelinha do parágrafo de abertura, a letra, o número de linhas ou a versão do motor, confira de novo a caixa contra as maiúsculas da primeira linha. - Uma capitular que ocupa todas as linhas do seu parágrafo continua reservando a caixa de linha inteira: na 1.4.1 a altura da abertura passa 3,5 mm do parágrafo de abertura do capítulo três, o que pode empurrar o texto uma linha da grade para baixo. Com o campo a 130 mm de altura, essa sobra não acrescenta linha da grade; se você mudar a altura, confira o branco embaixo do parágrafo de abertura.
- Títulos nunca giram nem correm na vertical: o texto de design é sempre horizontal. Empilhe as palavras com
\\, como faz o capítulo três.
Créditos
- Receita
- Ignacio Ferro
- Texto
- Texto original, CC BY 4.0
- Fontes
- Lora (SIL OFL 1.1) · Fraunces (SIL OFL 1.1) · Geist (SIL OFL 1.1) · Geist Mono (SIL OFL 1.1)
- Código
- MIT, como o Postext
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