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The PreTeXt Guide

Robert A. Beezer, David Farmer, Alex Jordan, Mitchel T. Keller

Subsection 44.3.5 Page Shape Options

The following options affect the “shape” of each page, so are in a way less “global” than some of the previous options. These are both attributes of the
/publication/latex/page
element.
  • Text Alignment, Right Edge.
    Set
    /publication/latex/page/@right-alignment
    to values flush (default) or ragged to influence the right edge of the block of text on a page. See Section 30.3 for more.
  • Text Alignment, Bottom Edge.
    Set
    /publication/latex/page/@bottom-alignment
    to values flush or ragged (default) to influence the bottom edge of the block of text on a page. See Section 30.3 for more.
The content of the element
/publication/latex/page/geometry
element will feed directly into a \geometry{} element, with no modifications. (In other words, all whitespace, such as newlines and indentation, will be preserved.) Be sure to carefully read the advice, an example, and further detail at Section 30.6.
The attribute
/publication/latex/page/@crop-marks
may be set to the value none, or not specified at all, and nothing will happen. Otherwise, it is set to a paper size, then the logical page (whose size is presumably set by the geometry package) will be centered on the physical page specified, with marks at each corner delineating the logical page. Some publishers request camera-ready copy to have these indications. Paper sizes are arguments to the crop package, and as of 2023-05-19 the possible values were:
a0, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6,
b0, b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6,
letter, legal, executive
There is no error-checking of these values. See Section 30.6 for more and examples.
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