zen-zine

Excellently type-set a cute little zine about your favorite topic!

Providing your eight pages in order will produce a US-Letter page with the content in a layout ready to be folded into a zine! The content is wrapped before movement so that padding and alignment are respected.

Here is the template and its preview:

#import "@preview/zen-zine:0.2.0": zine

#set document(author: "Tom", title: "Zen Zine Example")
#set text(font: "Libertinus Serif", lang: "en")

// this page size is what the printer page size is
// if building a digitial zine, the page will be re-set
// so that the PDF pages align with the zine page size
// and not the printer page size
#set page("us-letter")

// update heading rule to show that style is preserved
#show heading.where(level: 1): hd => {
  pad(top: 2em, text(10em, align(center, hd.body)))
}

#show: zine.with(
  // whether to make output PDF pages align with zine pages (true)
  // or have the zine pages located onto a printer page (false)
  // with this code, you can provide which kind you want on the command line
  //   typst compile input.typ output.pdf --input digital=(true|false)
  digital: json.decode(sys.inputs.at("digital", default: "false")),
  // zine_page_margin: 0.25in // margin of zine pages
  // draw_border: true // draw border boxes in printing mode
)

// provide your content pages in order and they
// are placed into the zine template positions.
// the content is wrapped before movement so that
// padding and alignment are respected.

= 1

#pagebreak()

= 2

#pagebreak()

== 3
#lorem(50)

#pagebreak()

== 4

#pagebreak()

= 5
#v(1fr)
five

#pagebreak()

six

#pagebreak()

= 7
seven

#pagebreak()

$ 8 $

Improvement Ideas

Roughly in order of priority.

• Write documentation and generate a manual
• Deduce page properties so that user can change the page they wish to use.
  • Commit 96fd477a
  • Make sure the page is flipped and deduce the zine page width and height from the full page width and height (and the zine margin)
  • Have zine function be provided context so page.width and page.height are available
• Add other zine sizes (there is a 16 page one I believe?)
• Digital mode where zine pages are separate pages (of the same size) rather than 'sub pages' of a printer page
  • Commit cc323123
• Figure out how syntax to enable #show.zine(config) syntax like other templates
  • PR #3
  • can "unpack" argument sinks ..sink with sink.pos() to get an array of positional arguments
  • having user use #pagebreak() to signal where pages are within document content
• Tweak margins to optimize for folding
  • Zines have 4 borders - outer margin, cut, outer fold, inner fold
  • we can squeeze the inner folds to expand the outer folds so that there is more tolerance on the folds and text wrapping around the outside is less likely
  • the outer margin is limited by a user's printer's capabilities
• 🤯give user acces to two next pages next to each other (in final zine) so they can decide how to handle an inner fold🤯