What are the basic setup steps to use Ornaments in PTXprint

Question

I don't believe that the MASTER SLIDES have sufficient information on setting up use of the Ornaments plugin in PTXprint. It jumps right into examples without talking about the setup steps. The What's New in PTXprint presentation has some more information, like setting up the Plugins field to say "ornaments". Now I have added \stylesheet{standardborders.sty} to the premods.tex file, and played a bit with the settings in the mods.tex file, but I haven't yet gotten any ornaments. What are the basic setup steps required?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the GUI isn't quite up to playing with ornaments at the moment (unless it's there as a normally hidden option, Mark?).

Basic steps are:
1. enable the plugin (put ornaments into the plugin list)
2. add \stylesheet{standardborders.sty} , assuming you're going to use them - you're welcome to define your own!

Decide... ornaments for zrule, or ornamental borders around textboxes, sidebars, or everything?
\zrule|cat="VectorianRule3" thick="5"\*

Here is an example for textborder, which uses a slimmed-down version of what you can set for a sidebar or a cat:titlebox|esb  / cat:headingbox|esb

Comments

Thanks for this. I saw reference somewhere in the training materials to a catalogue.pdf, which shows the different borders that are available. Where could I find that file?

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It's part of the documentation on github https://github.com/sillsdev/ptx2pdf/tree/master/docs/documentation    The file is actually called OrnamentsCatalogue.pdf these days.