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Um índice onomástico e um índice de assuntos

Marcas com index="names" alimentam um índice de pessoas e as demais um de assuntos; :::index imprime cada um em duas colunas e a montagem acerta as páginas.

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  • Amostra em inglês: ainda sem edição em português
  • Refile 155 × 235 mm
  • 1 coluna
  • Crimson Pro 10,6/13,6
  • Bodoni Moda
  • Libre Franklin
  • 7 páginas
  • Nível
  • Postext 1.19.1
  • Diagramado em 265 ms
  • 143 linhas de código

Em poucas palavras

Um capítulo de um livro acadêmico sobre a história dos tipos de impressão. Mostra como montar duas listas no fim do livro, uma de pessoas e outra de temas, com a página em que cada um aparece.

O que você vai compor

O capítulo quatro de Letters of Metal, uma monografia acadêmica sobre tipos de impressão composta em 155 × 235 mm: uma coluna de Crimson Pro, Bodoni itálico nos títulos, um destaque vermelho-tijolo. O ensaio vai da textura de Gutenberg aos modernos de Bodoni, passando por Jenson, Aldo e Griffo, Garamond e Plantin, Caslon e Baskerville, os pontos de Fournier e os tipos espanhóis que Pradell e Gil abriram e Ibarra imprimiu. Termina como esses livros terminam, com dois índices em páginas frente a frente: impressores, gravadores de punções e mecenas na página par; tipos, ferramentas e livros na ímpar. Os dois saem do mesmo texto marcado, e cada número de página neles é a página em que a marca caiu.

Esta receita responde a

  • Como imprimo dois índices, um onomástico e outro de assuntos, a partir do mesmo texto marcado?
  • Como faço um índice remissivo cujos números de página mudem sozinhos quando o texto se move?

A resposta curta

script.js · linhas 35–57no código completo
// Marks in the Markdown. A person goes to the names index, inverted:
//   :index[Aldus Manutius]{term="Manutius, Aldus" index="names" main}
// A subject goes to the main index, with levels split by "!" and a sort key when the
// printed form would file in the wrong place:
//   :index[textura]{term="Blackletter!textura" main}
//   :index{term="42-line Bible" sort="Forty-two-line Bible"}
//   :index{term="Cursive" see="Italic"}
// Printed at the end, each under its own heading:
//   # Index of Names {style="index"}    then    :::index{index="names"}
//   # Index of Subjects {style="index"} then    :::index
const indexHeading = {
  id: 'index',
  numbered: false, // no chapter number, and the next chapter is still chapter 5
  breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'any' },
  layout: { layoutType: 'double', gutterWidth: mm(7) }, // the section after the heading
};
const index = {
  fontSize: pt(8.6), lineHeight: pt(11.2), // one leading for entries and letter heads
  indent: em(1), turnoverIndent: em(2),
  rangeFormat: 'chicago', // 212–14, as a monograph prints it
  main: { bold: true }, // the page of the principal discussion
  groups: { fontFamily: 'Bodoni Moda', fontSize: pt(11), fontWeight: 600, color: col('brick') },
};

Ingredientes

Tipografia
Crimson Pro, Bodoni Moda, Libre Franklin (SIL OFL 1.1)
Materiais
Nenhum: todas as imagens são desenhadas em código

Preparo

#1 · Marcar cada pessoa para o índice onomástico e cada assunto para o principal

O código é a resposta curta acima; o resto está no Markdown. Uma marca com index="names" vai para o índice que :::index{index="names"} imprime, e todas as outras vão para o índice principal, o que um :::index sem atributos imprime. Assim, :index[Aldus Manutius]{term="Manutius, Aldus" index="names" main} imprime o nome no texto e registra uma página em negrito sob Manutius no índice onomástico, enquanto :index[italic]{term="Italic" main}, duas linhas adiante, registra a mesma página sob Italic no de assuntos. Uma pessoa que também é assunto do capítulo pode levar as duas marcas.

#2 · Inverter os nomes e ordenar pela letra em que o leitor vai procurar

Os nomes entram com o sobrenome primeiro: term="Garamond, Claude", term="Dall’Aglio, Margherita". A vírgula faz parte do termo, e por isso a ordenação põe Didot, Firmin antes de Didot, François-Ambroise, como faria um indexador. Quando a forma impressa cairia na letra errada, sort dá a chave: a edição inglesa marca term="42-line Bible" sort="Forty-two-line Bible", e assim a Bíblia fica sob a letra F em vez de abrir um grupo 0–9. Subentradas (term="Foundries!Plantin-Moretus"), páginas principais em negrito (main), range="start" e range="end" em volta da seção sobre Bodoni e remissões (see="Italic", seealso="Matrices") fazem o resto; um destino de see com níveis é impresso com dois-pontos, como em Humanist type. See Roman type: Venetian.

#3 · Montar uma vez; o documento acerta os próprios números

script.js · linhas 218–221no código completo
// A pass finds the page of every mark and prints both indexes with those numbers. When the
// printed index moves a mark (an index set before the text would), the layout runs again,
// until no page number changes (in a buildBundle book, the chapter with :::index gets them all).
const doc = await buildWithFonts(() => buildDocument({ markdown }, config()), markdown);

O índice imprime números de página que só existem depois da diagramação, e imprimi-lo ocupa páginas. buildDocument() resolve isso: diagrama o capítulo, lê a página de cada marca, imprime os dois índices e diagrama de novo sempre que um número muda. Aqui os índices vêm depois do texto, então uma segunda passada confirma a primeira; um índice posto antes do texto deslocaria todas as páginas seguintes, e as passadas continuariam até concordarem. Acrescente um parágrafo à seção sobre Bodoni e o índice onomástico dá a Whittingham a nova página sozinho.

#4 · Dar a cada índice uma abertura sobre duas colunas

script.js · linhas 61–75no código completo
const opener = (sink, size) => ({
  enabled: true,
  minHeight: pt(LEAD * sink), // the text starts on the same grid line in every chapter
  slot: { elements: [
    { kind: 'text', id: 'kicker', content: '{attr.kicker}', ...label, fontSize: pt(7.8),
      letterSpacing: pt(1.6), color: col('brick'), align: 'left',
      placement: at('container', 'top-left', 0, 10) },
    { kind: 'text', id: 'title', content: '{titleText}', fontFamily: 'Bodoni Moda', italic: true,
      fontSize: pt(size), lineHeight: 1.08, color: col('ink'), align: 'left',
      overflow: 'wrap', // design text ends in an ellipsis by default
      placement: { ...at('#kicker', 'below', 0, 3), size: { width: 'fill', height: 'auto' } } },
    { kind: 'rule', id: 'rule', direction: 'horizontal', thickness: pt(0.75), color: col('brick'),
      placement: { ...at('#title', 'below', 0, 4.5), size: { width: mm(16) } } },
  ] },
});

O estilo de título da resposta curta faz três coisas por # Index of Names {style="index"}: abre uma página (parity: 'any', para que os dois índices venham um depois do outro sem página em branco), compõe em duas colunas separadas por 7 mm a seção que vem depois dele e, com numbered: false, não mexe na contagem de capítulos. O estilo reaproveita a abertura de capítulo com um rebaixamento de seis linhas e um título de 20 pt, e as letras de grupo repetem o Bodoni dela na cor de destaque, com a altura de uma linha do índice, para que as colunas mantenham o passo.

#5 · Pôr o nome do índice na página ímpar

script.js · linhas 79–96no código completo
const head = (id, content, parity, edge, x, extra = {}) => ({
  kind: 'text', id, content, parity, pages: 'body', // never on openers
  ...label, fontSize: pt(7.2), letterSpacing: pt(1.3), color: col('muted'),
  placement: at('page', edge, x, 12.5), ...extra,
});
const folio = { color: col('brick'), fontWeight: 700 };
const header = { elements: [
  head('verso-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'even', 'top-left', MARGIN.outer,
    { ...folio, align: 'left' }),
  head('verso-title', '{title}', 'even', 'top-left', MARGIN.outer + 8, { align: 'left' }),
  head('recto-title', '{chapterTitle}', 'odd', 'top-right', -(MARGIN.outer + 8),
    { align: 'right' }),
  head('recto-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'odd', 'top-right', -MARGIN.outer,
    { ...folio, align: 'right' }),
] };
// Openers carry a drop folio instead, centred under the text block.
const footer = { elements: [{ ...head('drop-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'all', 'bottom', 0,
  { ...folio, align: 'center', placement: at('page', 'bottom', 0, -12) }), pages: 'opener' }] };

O cabeço da página ímpar imprime {chapterTitle}, e o título de um índice é de nível um como o de qualquer capítulo, então as páginas seguintes trazem Index of Subjects no alto. pages: 'body' tira os cabeços das duas aberturas de índice, que levam um fólio no pé.

A receita completa

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// ═══ Postext Cookbook · Nº 073 · An index of names and an index of subjects ═══════
// https://postext.dev/en/cookbook/names-and-subjects-indexes
// Code: MIT · Text: original (CC BY 4.0) · Pictures: none
// Fonts: Crimson Pro, Bodoni Moda, Libre Franklin (SIL OFL 1.1) · Needs postext ≥ 1.7.0
import { buildDocument, renderPageToCanvas, clearMeasurementCache } from 'https://esm.sh/postext';
import { renderToPdf, decompressWoff2 } from 'https://esm.sh/postext-pdf';

const LANG = 'en'; // @lang: the language of the sample document ('en' | 'es')
const RECIPE = 'names-and-subjects-indexes';

// ─── 1 · Design ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// #region palette: a warm black, one brick red for kickers, letter heads and folios
const palette = {
  ink: '#211d19', // text: a warm near-black
  brick: '#8e3b24', // the one accent
  muted: '#6d645a', // running heads, colophon
  rule: '#c8bba9', // hairlines
  paper: '#fcfaf5',
};
// A design element paints the hex written beside its paletteId (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, never the default blue.
  { id: 'main-color', name: 'accent (defaults)', value: { hex: palette.brick, model: 'hex' } },
];
// #endregion
const TRIM = { width: 155, height: 235 }; // a scholarly monograph
const MARGIN = { top: 22, bottom: 24, inner: 19, outer: 22 }; // mirrored: 114 mm measure
const LEAD = 13.6; // body leading in pt
const at = (to, edge, x = 0, y = 0) => ({ anchor: { to, edge }, offset: { x: mm(x), y: mm(y) } });
const label = { fontFamily: 'Libre Franklin', fontWeight: 600, textTransform: 'uppercase' };

// #region answer: two indexes from one text, each under a two-column heading style
// Marks in the Markdown. A person goes to the names index, inverted:
//   :index[Aldus Manutius]{term="Manutius, Aldus" index="names" main}
// A subject goes to the main index, with levels split by "!" and a sort key when the
// printed form would file in the wrong place:
//   :index[textura]{term="Blackletter!textura" main}
//   :index{term="42-line Bible" sort="Forty-two-line Bible"}
//   :index{term="Cursive" see="Italic"}
// Printed at the end, each under its own heading:
//   # Index of Names {style="index"}    then    :::index{index="names"}
//   # Index of Subjects {style="index"} then    :::index
const indexHeading = {
  id: 'index',
  numbered: false, // no chapter number, and the next chapter is still chapter 5
  breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'any' },
  layout: { layoutType: 'double', gutterWidth: mm(7) }, // the section after the heading
};
const index = {
  fontSize: pt(8.6), lineHeight: pt(11.2), // one leading for entries and letter heads
  indent: em(1), turnoverIndent: em(2),
  rangeFormat: 'chicago', // 212–14, as a monograph prints it
  main: { bold: true }, // the page of the principal discussion
  groups: { fontFamily: 'Bodoni Moda', fontSize: pt(11), fontWeight: 600, color: col('brick') },
};
// #endregion

// #region opener: kicker, a Bodoni italic title and a short rule, sunk to the same line
const opener = (sink, size) => ({
  enabled: true,
  minHeight: pt(LEAD * sink), // the text starts on the same grid line in every chapter
  slot: { elements: [
    { kind: 'text', id: 'kicker', content: '{attr.kicker}', ...label, fontSize: pt(7.8),
      letterSpacing: pt(1.6), color: col('brick'), align: 'left',
      placement: at('container', 'top-left', 0, 10) },
    { kind: 'text', id: 'title', content: '{titleText}', fontFamily: 'Bodoni Moda', italic: true,
      fontSize: pt(size), lineHeight: 1.08, color: col('ink'), align: 'left',
      overflow: 'wrap', // design text ends in an ellipsis by default
      placement: { ...at('#kicker', 'below', 0, 3), size: { width: 'fill', height: 'auto' } } },
    { kind: 'rule', id: 'rule', direction: 'horizontal', thickness: pt(0.75), color: col('brick'),
      placement: { ...at('#title', 'below', 0, 4.5), size: { width: mm(16) } } },
  ] },
});
// #endregion

// #region running-heads: book title on the verso, chapter or index on the recto
const head = (id, content, parity, edge, x, extra = {}) => ({
  kind: 'text', id, content, parity, pages: 'body', // never on openers
  ...label, fontSize: pt(7.2), letterSpacing: pt(1.3), color: col('muted'),
  placement: at('page', edge, x, 12.5), ...extra,
});
const folio = { color: col('brick'), fontWeight: 700 };
const header = { elements: [
  head('verso-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'even', 'top-left', MARGIN.outer,
    { ...folio, align: 'left' }),
  head('verso-title', '{title}', 'even', 'top-left', MARGIN.outer + 8, { align: 'left' }),
  head('recto-title', '{chapterTitle}', 'odd', 'top-right', -(MARGIN.outer + 8),
    { align: 'right' }),
  head('recto-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'odd', 'top-right', -MARGIN.outer,
    { ...folio, align: 'right' }),
] };
// Openers carry a drop folio instead, centred under the text block.
const footer = { elements: [{ ...head('drop-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'all', 'bottom', 0,
  { ...folio, align: 'center', placement: at('page', 'bottom', 0, -12) }), pages: 'opener' }] };
// #endregion

const config = () => ({ // a factory: the engine caches resolved configs per object
  locale: t({ en: 'en-us', es: 'es' }), // exact codes (gotcha: hyphenation-locales)
  colorPalette,
  page: { sizePreset: 'custom', width: mm(TRIM.width), height: mm(TRIM.height), dpi: 150,
    backgroundColor: col('paper'),
    margins: { top: mm(MARGIN.top), bottom: mm(MARGIN.bottom), left: mm(MARGIN.inner),
      right: mm(MARGIN.outer), mirror: true } }, // left = inner
  layout: { layoutType: 'single' },
  bodyText: { fontFamily: 'Crimson Pro', fontSize: pt(10.6), lineHeight: pt(LEAD),
    color: col('ink'), boldColor: col('ink'), italicColor: col('ink'), referenceColor: col('ink'),
    textAlign: 'justify', firstLineIndent: mm(4.5), indentAfterHeading: false,
    hyphenation: { enabled: true }, optimalLineBreaking: true,
    avoidWidows: true, avoidOrphans: true, avoidRunts: true },
  headings: { fontFamily: 'Bodoni Moda', fontWeight: 400, color: col('ink'), levels: [
    // Restated on purpose: any headings object drops the H1 break
    // (gotcha: headings-drop-h1-break).
    { level: 1, advancedDesign: opener(9, 26), marginBottom: pt(0),
      breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'odd' } },
    { level: 2, fontSize: pt(12), lineHeight: pt(LEAD), italic: true, fontWeight: 400,
      color: col('brick'), marginTop: pt(LEAD), marginBottom: pt(LEAD * 0.5) },
  ] },
  // The index heading: a shallower opener over the two columns of entries.
  headingStyles: [{ ...indexHeading, span: 'page', advancedDesign: opener(6, 20),
    marginBottom: pt(0) }],
  index,
  paragraphStyles: [
    { id: 'colophon', ...label, textTransform: 'none', fontWeight: 400, fontSize: pt(7),
      lineHeight: pt(10), color: col('muted'), textAlign: 'left', firstLineIndent: pt(0),
      marginTop: pt(LEAD * 2) },
  ],
  header,
  footer,
});

// ─── 2 · Content ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
const markdown = String.raw`---
Amostra em Markdown · 70 linhas · content.en.mdtitle: "Letters of Metal" subtitle: "A Short History of Printing Types" --- # From Textura to Bodoni {kicker="Chapter four"} The first European types imitated the hand that readers trusted most. When :index[Johannes Gutenberg]{term="Gutenberg, Johannes" index="names" main} printed his Bible in Mainz, finished by 1455,:index{term="42-line Bible" sort="Forty-two-line Bible" main} he set it in :index[textura]{term="Blackletter!textura" main}, the tall, narrow letter of German choir books, with its broken strokes and diamond feet. The page was meant to pass for a manuscript, and it did: rubricators added the red initials by hand, and some copies were printed on vellum. What was new lay out of sight. Each letter had been cut in steel as a :index[punch]{term="Punchcutting" main}:index{term="Punchcutting" seealso="Matrices"}, struck into a bar of softer copper to make a :index[matrix]{term="Matrices"}, and cast in the :index[hand mould]{term="Hand mould"} from an alloy of lead, tin and antimony.:index{term="Type metal"} A single punch could yield thousands of identical sorts, and the whole chain, from punch to page, would stay in use with few changes for nearly four hundred years. Gutenberg’s partners saw the business before he did. :index[Johann Fust]{term="Fust, Johann" index="names"} took over the shop after a lawsuit in 1455, and with :index[Peter Schoeffer]{term="Schoeffer, Peter" index="names"} he printed the Mainz Psalter of 1457, the first book to carry a printer’s colophon and a date. When Mainz was sacked in 1462 its journeymen scattered, and within twenty years there were presses in more than a hundred towns. ## The Venetian roman Italian readers did not want German letters. The humanists of Florence had revived the Carolingian minuscule for their copies of the classics, a round, open hand they believed ancient, and the printers who came south followed them. The best of the early romans was cut in Venice by :index[Nicolas Jenson]{term="Jenson, Nicolas" index="names" main}, a Frenchman trained at the mint of Tours. His Eusebius of 1470 is set in a :index[roman]{term="Roman type!Venetian" main} of even colour and wide, well-fitted capitals, and it has been the model for revivals ever since. Twenty-five years later :index[Aldus Manutius]{term="Manutius, Aldus" index="names" main} opened his press in the same city, with a scholar’s programme: Greek texts first, then the Latin authors in editions a student could carry. His punchcutter was :index[Francesco Griffo]{term="Griffo, Francesco" index="names" main} of Bologna. For the short dialogue *De Aetna* by the young :index[Pietro Bembo]{term="Bembo, Pietro" index="names"}, printed in 1496,:index{term="*De Aetna*"} Griffo cut a roman lighter and more regular than Jenson’s, with capitals shorter than the ascenders, the proportion book faces have kept to this day. :index{term="Roman type!Aldine"} In 1501 Aldus issued a :index[Virgil]{term="Virgil" index="names"} in octavo, set entirely in a new letter: Griffo’s :index[italic]{term="Italic" main}, based on the sloped script of the papal chancery. It saved space, which suited a pocket book, and it looked learned. The Venetian Senate granted Aldus a privilege over it,:index{term="Privileges"} counterfeiters in Lyon copied it within a year, and Aldus and Griffo quarrelled over the credit until Griffo left Venice. For a century the italic was a text face in its own right. Only later did printers pair it with a roman and use it for emphasis, titles and foreign words, the role it still has. :index{term="Cursive" see="Italic"} ## Paris and Antwerp The roman became French in the 1530s. The Paris printer :index[Robert Estienne]{term="Estienne, Robert" index="names"} and his circle wanted Aldine letters, and the man who cut them best was :index[Claude Garamond]{term="Garamond, Claude" index="names" main}, a punchcutter who worked mostly for other men’s presses. His romans refine Griffo’s model: the thin strokes are finer, the serifs sharper, the capitals lighter against the lower case. Between 1540 and 1550 he also cut the *grecs du roi*,:index{term="Greek type"} three sizes of Greek for François I, closely modelled on the hand of the Cretan scribe Angelos Vergikios. When Garamond died in 1561 his punches were sold, and many went to Antwerp. :index[Christophe Plantin]{term="Plantin, Christophe" index="names" main}, a bookbinder from Touraine, had built there the largest printing house in Europe, and he bought type as a banker buys bonds. His shop kept the punches and matrices of Garamond, of :index[Robert Granjon]{term="Granjon, Robert" index="names" main} and of Guillaume Le Bé, and for the great Polyglot Bible of 1568–1572, in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and Syriac, he needed all of them. Granjon was the finest italic cutter of the century; he also cut, in Lyon in 1557, the *civilité*, a French secretary hand he hoped would become a national type. It did not, but his italics did. The house stayed with the Moretus family until the city of Antwerp bought it in 1876, and its punches, matrices and account books are still there, the most complete type foundry of its age to survive.:index{term="Foundries!Plantin-Moretus"} ## The English century England printed with Dutch type until the eighteenth century, when an engraver of gun locks set up a foundry in London. :index[William Caslon]{term="Caslon, William" index="names" main} issued his specimen sheet in 1734,:index{term="Specimens!Caslon, 1734"} and his roman, sturdy and a little irregular, became the ordinary type of the English-speaking world. It needed no explanation and drew no attention to itself, which is why printers still reach for it. :index[John Baskerville]{term="Baskerville, John" index="names" main}, a Birmingham writing master who had made his money in japanned ware, came to printing late and changed more than the letters. For his Virgil of 1757 he had his own type cut by John Handy, with a more vertical stress and a sharper contrast than Caslon’s, and he printed it on smooth wove paper,:index{term="Paper, wove"} with a blacker ink of his own recipe, and pressed the sheets between hot copper plates to give them a gloss. English printers found the pages too bright to read. Readers on the Continent admired them, and a :index[transitional]{term="Transitional type"} letter, between the old style and the modern, was born. ## Measuring type Until the middle of the eighteenth century every foundry named its sizes as it pleased: *pica*, *cicero*, *long primer*, *petit-romain*. A size was a habit of the house, not a measurement, and a printer who bought type from two foundries could not set it side by side. :index[Pierre-Simon Fournier]{term="Fournier, Pierre-Simon" index="names" main}, the younger son of a Paris family of typefounders, published in 1737 a table of proportions that divided an inch into seventy-two :index[points]{term="Point system" main range="start"} and gave every body a number of points. He set it out in full in his *Manuel typographique* of 1764–1766.:index{term="*Manuel typographique*"} :index[François-Ambroise Didot]{term="Didot, François-Ambroise" index="names"} tied the point to the royal foot about 1783, which made it slightly larger; the Didot point spread across the Continent, while American and British founders settled on a pica point of their own only in 1886 and 1898. :index{term="Point system" range="end"} ## Spanish types Spanish printers of the early eighteenth century bought their type in Holland and France, and the Crown thought this a disgrace for a kingdom that had printed the Complutensian Polyglot. :index[Charles III]{term="Charles III, king of Spain" index="names"} and his ministers set out to change it. The Royal Library in Madrid opened a foundry of its own,:index{term="Foundries!Royal Library, Madrid" main} and the Crown paid pensions to punchcutters who would work in Spain. Two of them came from very different trades. :index[Eudald Pradell]{term="Pradell, Eudald" index="names" main}, the son of a gunsmith from Ripoll, had learned to cut steel in his father’s forge and cut his first punches in Barcelona. Called to Madrid in 1764 with a royal pension, he cut romans and italics of an open, generous design that the Madrid printers took up at once. :index[Jerónimo Antonio Gil]{term="Gil, Jerónimo Antonio" index="names" main} came from the other end of the trade: he was an engraver of the Royal Mint, a medallist, and he cut for the Royal Library a series of romans, italics and Greek that the Library showed in its specimen of 1787.:index{term="Specimens!Royal Library, 1787"} Gil did not stay to see it. In 1778 he left for Mexico as chief engraver of the mint, and there he founded the school that became the Academy of San Carlos. The printer who made these types famous was :index[Joaquín Ibarra]{term="Ibarra, Joaquín" index="names" main}, born in Zaragoza in 1725 and printer to the King from 1779. His Sallust of 1772, translated by the Infante Gabriel,:index{term="Gabriel of Bourbon, Infante" index="names"} was praised in Paris and Parma for its presswork. For the Real Academia Española he printed in 1780 the *Quixote* in four quarto volumes,:index{term="*Quixote*, Academy edition" main}:index{term="Cervantes, Miguel de" index="names"} set in Gil’s types, illustrated by the best engravers of the court and printed on paper made for it in Catalonia. The ink, dark and even, was Ibarra’s own; the page, with generous margins and no ornament besides the plates, is the Spanish counterpart of Baskerville’s. ## Bodoni’s moderns The last step belonged to a printer at a small court.:index{term="Modern face" range="start"} :index[Giambattista Bodoni]{term="Bodoni, Giambattista" index="names" main}, born in Saluzzo in 1740, learned to cut punches at the press of the Propaganda Fide in Rome, where he cleaned and set in order its oriental types. In 1768 Duke Ferdinand called him to Parma to run the ducal press, and he stayed there for the rest of his life. His early types follow Fournier; by the 1790s he was cutting letters of a new kind, with hairline serifs, strictly vertical stress and a contrast between thick and thin that only smooth paper and careful printing could hold. These are the :index[modern]{term="Modern face" main} faces. In Paris, :index[Firmin Didot]{term="Didot, Firmin" index="names"} was drawing the same conclusions at the same time, and the two houses watched each other closely.:index{term="Didone" see="Modern face"} Bodoni printed few books that anyone read, and many that everyone admired: Homer in Greek, Horace, Tasso, folio after folio for collectors and kings. His life’s work was the :index[*Manuale tipografico*]{term="*Manuale tipografico*" main}, which his widow, :index[Margherita Dall’Aglio]{term="Dall’Aglio, Margherita" index="names"}, published in 1818, five years after his death: two volumes of romans and italics in more than a hundred sizes and cuts, with Greek, Hebrew and other alphabets, and a preface that says what a letter ought to be. The modern face swept the Continent and then England, where by 1820 hardly a printer still set books in old-style type.:index{term="Modern face" range="end"} ## Names for the families The words this chapter has used, :index[old style]{term="Old style" main}, transitional and modern, come from the printers of the nineteenth century, who needed a way to order their specimen books, and they are not precise. An old style in 1860 meant any letter cut on the model of Caslon; a modern meant anything after Bodoni, however clumsy. The old style came back in the 1840s, when :index[Charles Whittingham]{term="Whittingham, Charles" index="names"} of the Chiswick Press reissued Caslon’s type for a book set in the manner of the seventeenth century, and from then on the two lived side by side in every specimen. In 1921 the French typefounder :index[Francis Thibaudeau]{term="Thibaudeau, Francis" index="names"} proposed to sort types by their serifs alone: triangular, hairline, square or none.:index{term="Classification of types!Thibaudeau, 1921"} It was easy to apply and blind to history. :index[Maximilien Vox]{term="Vox, Maximilien" index="names"}, an illustrator and publisher, went further in 1954 with nine families whose names join the masters of each style: *humanes* for the Venetians after Jenson, *garaldes* for Garamond and Aldus, *réales* for the letters of Fournier and Baskerville, *didones* for Didot and Bodoni.:index{term="Classification of types!Vox, 1954" main} The Association Typographique Internationale adopted a version of it in 1962, and the British Standards Institution followed in 1967. :index{term="Garalde" see="Old style"} :index{term="Humanist type" see="Roman type!Venetian"} These labels leave out as much as they sort. Gil’s romans for the Royal Library are *réales* by the book and Spanish by every other measure; Pradell’s italics owe as much to Granjon as to anything cut in their own century. The quarrel between the two ideas of the letter, the one written with a pen and the one drawn with compasses and rule, is older than any of these names and has not been settled. :::paragraphs{style="colophon"} *Letters of Metal*, chapter four. Set in Crimson Pro, with Bodoni Moda for display and Libre Franklin for labels (SIL Open Font License). Text written for the Postext Cookbook, CC BY 4.0. ::: # Index of Names {style="index" kicker="Printers, punchcutters, patrons"} :::index{index="names"} # Index of Subjects {style="index" kicker="Types, tools and books"} :::index
`; // content.<lang>.md, inlined by the Cookbook // ─── 3 · Fonts ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // Every face the design uses (gotcha: fonts-first). const FONTS = { 'Crimson Pro': ['400', '400i', '600', '700'], 'Bodoni Moda': ['400', '400i', '600'], 'Libre Franklin': ['400', '400i', '600', '700'], }; // ─── 4 · Build & show ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── await loadFonts(FONTS, markdown); // #region build: one buildDocument, laid out again until the index's page numbers settle // A pass finds the page of every mark and prints both indexes with those numbers. When the // printed index moves a mark (an index set before the text would), the layout runs again, // until no page number changes (in a buildBundle book, the chapter with :::index gets them all). const doc = await buildWithFonts(() => buildDocument({ markdown }, config()), markdown); // #endregion showPages(doc, { title: t({ en: 'Two indexes', es: 'Dos índices' }) }); offerPdf(() => renderToPdf(doc, { fontProvider: fontsourceProvider }), `${RECIPE}.pdf`);
Kit · core, fonts, viewer, pdf: igual em todas as receitas · 281 linhas// ─── Kit ── helpers shared by every Cookbook recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ───── // ─── Kit · core v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook function mm(value) { return { value, unit: 'mm' }; } function pt(value) { return { value, unit: 'pt' }; } function em(value) { return { value, unit: 'em' }; } /** The sample language's string: t({ en: 'Figure', es: 'Figura' }). */ function t(strings) { return strings[LANG] ?? Object.values(strings)[0]; } /** A file in this recipe's assets folder, served from the Postext repo by jsDelivr. */ function asset(file) { return `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/drnachio/postext@main/cookbook/${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: ${error?.message ?? error}`); } // ─── Kit · pdf v2 ── the same in every recipe that exports a PDF /** The Fontsource files the screen used, as TrueType: the nearest weight the * family ships, upright if it has no italic; latin, then what the face's * letters need (kitSubsetsFor). */ async function fontsourceProvider(family, weight, style, request) { const id = fontsourceId(family); const meta = await fontsourceMeta(family); const weights = meta?.weights?.length ? meta.weights : [400, 700]; const w = weights.reduce((a, b) => (Math.abs(b - weight) < Math.abs(a - weight) ? b : a)); const s = style === 'italic' && meta && !meta.styles.includes('italic') ? 'normal' : style; const text = String.fromCodePoint(...(request?.codePoints ?? [])); const more = kitSubsetsFor(text, meta); const files = await Promise.all(['latin', ...more].map(async (subset) => { const res = await fetch(`https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fontsource/${id}@5/files/${id}-${subset}-${w}-${s}.woff2`); if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Fontsource has no ${family} ${w} ${s} ${subset}`); return decompressWoff2(new Uint8Array(await res.arrayBuffer())); })); return files.length === 1 ? files[0] : files; } /** A "Build the PDF" button; then "Open the PDF" (a new tab: CodePen's frame * shows no PDFs) and a download link. */ function offerPdf(makePdf, filename) { viewer(); const button = Object.assign(document.createElement('button'), { type: 'button', textContent: 'Build the PDF' }); button.dataset.postextPdf = filename; button.addEventListener('click', async () => { button.disabled = true; button.textContent = 'Building the PDF…'; try { const bytes = await makePdf(); const url = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([bytes], { type: 'application/pdf' })); const size = `${Math.max(1, Math.round(bytes.length / 1024))} KB`; button.replaceWith( Object.assign(document.createElement('a'), { href: url, target: '_blank', rel: 'noopener', textContent: 'Open the PDF ↗' }), Object.assign(document.createElement('a'), { href: url, download: filename, textContent: `Download ${filename} · ${size}` })); } catch (error) { button.disabled = false; button.textContent = 'Build the PDF'; kitFail(error); } }); document.getElementById('pt-actions').append(button); } // ─── /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

#Imprimir um índice único

Tire index="names" das marcas de pessoas e o segundo título: todas as marcas vão então para o índice principal, nomes e assuntos num só alfabeto.

-:index[Aldus Manutius]{term="Manutius, Aldus" index="names" main}
+:index[Aldus Manutius]{term="Manutius, Aldus" main}

#Tirar as letras de grupo

Um índice onomástico curto como este se lê bem sem elas. groups.enabled: false remove as letras e deixa uma linha de espaço entre um grupo e outro; a configuração vale para os dois índices.

-  groups: { fontFamily: 'Bodoni Moda', fontSize: pt(11), fontWeight: 600, color: col('brick') },
+  groups: { enabled: false },

Erros comuns

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

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

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

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

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 →

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 →

  • A configuração index é compartilhada: os dois índices usam a mesma fonte, a mesma entrelinha e as mesmas letras de grupo.
  • Uma marca numa legenda ou numa célula de tabela é impressa como foi escrita. Marque a pessoa no parágrafo que cita a figura.

Créditos

Texto
  • “From Textura to Bodoni”, an essay on the history of printing types written for this recipe, in English and Spanish · Ignacio Ferro · CC BY 4.0
Fontes
Crimson Pro (SIL OFL 1.1) · Bodoni Moda (SIL OFL 1.1) · Libre Franklin (SIL OFL 1.1)
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