From 55929b943799bd7e2dc3423e3b04dacf1f110498 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Alex A. Naanou" Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:46:34 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] template process and theory... Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou --- scripts/README.md | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/README.md b/scripts/README.md index 55f15e5..f1fd07c 100644 --- a/scripts/README.md +++ b/scripts/README.md @@ -89,6 +89,69 @@ $ make-images.sh --help ### The process +XXX spreads vs. pages + +The system is designed to minimize the effort in laying out pages, so +when designing a book the focus should be on global templates and on +helping `make-images.sh` build them rather than trying to layout each +spread individually. + +Here there are several ways to arrive at a book layout starting from the +concept, through the edit, sequencing, structuring and the graphic +design, we here will focus on the stage of the process where a body of +work is starting to look like a book. + +When starting work on a book layout it is good to at least have a basic +understanding of it's: +- book structure and how it may change, +- core templates, +- exceptions from the above. + +In most cases all of the above will change, and the main goal of this +stage is to make this change as simple as possible, the less effort is +needed to prove the need for change the simpler and more effortless this +change will be -- it's all about providing the freedom to make changes +instead of locking oneself into the work/time already invested. + +The first question is what is the _structure_ of the book we are making? +Will it have chapters? How many? Text, how much, how should it be +structured? How are we going to deal with the title? How are we going +to present the images, full bleed, no bleeds, small, big, one per page +or multiple images, ...etc.? At this stage this is about the presentation +the flow of the work and not about the actual design. How many typical +spreads (i.e. spread templates) should it have? A good number should be +small-ish, for example 3-4 spread templates is a good number, if you +count 10+ then you might be overcomplicating tings, but note, there are +no rules, a book where each spread is individually and manually layed out +may work as well as a book with just a single template spread, but in +general for a photo book the focus is on the project and the layout +should work with it without overwhelming it. + +Have answers, good, now it's time to build those mock layouts and make +them into basic templates. + +There are two ways to approach this: +- Page templates + These are typical pages that makeup a spread template, usually an + image page (`imagepage.tex`) and a text page (`textpage.tex`), + `make-images.sh` can combine them to build spreads automatically. +- Spread templates + These typeset a spread and can be either automatically inferred from + the structure or manually selected. + +Note that `photobook` provides a set of ready high level templates +specifically designed for this approach. + + +#### Automatic template inference + +#### Manual template selection + +#### Template tweaking + +#### Individual spread layouts + + ### Templates