diff --git a/photobook.cls b/photobook.cls index f6d4e03..553b660 100644 --- a/photobook.cls +++ b/photobook.cls @@ -109,6 +109,13 @@ %% % paragraph configuration... %% \setlength\parindent{0pt} %% \setlength\parskip{0.5em} +%% +%% \newcommand\blankfootnote[1]{% +%% \begingroup +%% \renewcommand\thefootnote{}% +%% \footnote{#1}% +%% \addtocounter{footnote}{-1}% +%% \endgroup} %% %% %% \begin{document} @@ -136,30 +143,31 @@ % %%%% Introduction % -%% \LaTeX is great with textual and text-primary content with figures +%% \LaTeX\ is great with textual and text-primary content with figures %% peppered in, as long as pictures/figures flow within, with or as part -%% of text, vanilla \LaTeX is fantastic. +%% of text, vanilla \LaTeX\ is fantastic. %% -%% One can relatively easily streatch the flow concept to more complex -%% layouts introducing even and odd pages (|book| class as one example) -%% and flow rules based on them, but the next step, bleeds, combining page -%% pairs into spreads as is often needed when designing image-oriented -%% books is lacking. Full-bleed images/pages can be implemented manually, -%% some more effort is needed to split something horizontally into a page -%% spread, but doing so for whole book's worth of content is not practical -- -%% automating and experimenting with this process is how |photobook| began. +%% One can relatively easily stretch the flow concept to more complex +%% layouts introducing {\it even} and {\it odd} pages (the |book| class is +%% one example) and flow rules based on them, but the next step, {\it bleeds}, +%% combining page pairs into {\it spreads} as is often needed when designing +%% image-oriented books is lacking. Full-bleed images/pages can be implemented +%% manually, some more effort is needed to split something horizontally +%% into a page spread, but doing so for whole book's worth of content is +%% not practical -- automating and experimenting with this process is +%% how |photobook| began. %% %% |photobook| extends the |book| class adding page layout types, bleeds -%% and other global geopetry configuration, introduces the page and -%% spread as first-class elements into the document flow. These concepts +%% and other global geometry configuration, introduces the {\it page} and +%% {\it spread} as first-class elements into the document flow. These concepts %% are generalized as |cell|s. A |cell| is similar to a figure, it can %% be placed within the document flow, but unlike a figure a |cell| can %% be aligned relative to a page, it can fill a page, a cell can even be %% horizontally split to fill several pages (how spreads are implemented). %% -%% On top of the |cell|, page, and spread concepts, |photobook| also builds -%% a set of configurable high level macros and templates for common use -%% cases like full bleed image spreads, etc. +%% On top of the |cell|, {\it page}, and {\it spread} concepts, |photobook| +%% also builds a set of configurable high level macros and templates for +%% common use cases like full bleed image spreads, foldouts, ... etc. % % %%%% Usage @@ -5024,6 +5032,15 @@ %%%} +% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +%% \blankfootnote{% +%% Why ASCII diagrams instead of normal graphics, you might ask? +%% Well, for the same reason as photo-books in \LaTeX\ -- I liked +%% the idea of it, the simplicity, and thought that it would be fun to +%% see how far can I push things before it all falling apart on me, and... +%% We are here and it all is still here too :)} + + %---------------------------------------------------------------------- %% \end{document} % vim:set ts=4 sw=4 nowrap :