Re: crop marks?

[arnold]

Hi.

Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> However, they probably aren't in the right place. I don't really
> understand what the cropmarks are for in the first place. Doesn't it
> depend on what areas of a page a printer is capable of printing on,
> which depends on the printer?

When printing an @smallbook book on regular paper (as an author would
do while working on a book), the pages are (supposed to be) centered
on the larger paper. You can't tell where the physically smaller borders
really are. The cropmarks give you a visual clue as to what the end
result will really be.

> I suspect the code is wrong even for the top crop marks. [....]
> It all seems very arbitrary to me.

I would think it'd be a straightforward calculation to determine
where to place them, if indeed the @smallbook pages are centered,
or even if they start at the top like regular pages.

I don't doubt that that bit of texinfo.tex is suffering terribly from
bit rot. :-(  Maybe Karl can help?

Thanks for looking into this.  It's not at all urgent, but it'd be
nice if it got attended to sometime in the next months.

Much thanks,

Arnold