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:0.1.0": zine

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

#let my_eight_pages = (
  range(8).map(
    number => [
      #pad(2em, text(10em, align(center, str(number))))
    ]
  )
)

// 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.
#zine(
  // draw_border: true,
  // zine_page_margin: 8pt,
  // digital: false
  contents: my_eight_pages
)

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.
  • 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)
  • I'm currently struggling with finding out the page properties (what's the #get equivalent to #set?)
• 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
  • cc323123
• Figure out how syntax to enable #show.zine(config) syntax like other templates
  • can "unpack" argument sinks ..sink with sink.pos() to get an array of positional arguments
  • still trying to figure out how to provide an array of zine content pages in this syntactical style
• Tweak margins to optimize for folding
  • Zines have 3 borders - 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
• 🤯give user acces to two next pages next to each other (in final zine) so they can decide how to handle an inner fold🤯