gentombow

This bundle provides a LaTeX package for generating Japanese-style crop marks (called 'tombow' in Japanese) for practical use in self-publishing. The core feature of "gentombow.sty" is based on pLaTeX kernel.

Supported engines

All packages except bounddvi.sty works with the followings:

• LaTeX + dvips/dvipdfmx
• pLaTeX/upLaTeX + dvips/dvipdfmx
• pdfLaTeX
• LuaLaTeX
• XeLaTeX

Bundle contents

• gentombow.sty: Generate crop marks (called 'tombow' in Japanese) for practical use in self-publishing. It provides the core 'tombow' feature if not available.
• pxgentombow.sty: (Superseded by gentombow.sty; for compatibility only.)
• bounddvi.sty: Set papersize special to DVI file. Can be used on LaTeX/pLaTeX/upLaTeX (with DVI output mode) with dvips or dvipdfmx drivers. Old version (v6.0) was written by Koichi INOUE in 2004 (https://www.ma.ns.tcu.ac.jp/Pages/TeX/bounddvi.sty.html), and incorporated into this bundle by his courtesy.

Miscellaneous patches

Some packages are unaware of crop marks defined in "gentombow"; to cope with those packages, patches are provided here.

• pxtextpos.sty: Patch for textpos.sty (by Norman Gray).
• pxesopic.sty: Patch for eso-pic.sty (by Rolf Niepraschk).
• pxpdfpages.sty: Patch for pdfpages.sty (by Andreas Matthias).

These patches can also be used independent of "gentombow", to avoid problems with crop marks on pLaTeX and upLaTeX.

Character encoding

All the package files (.sty) contain ASCII characters only. All the document files (.tex) are encoded in UTF-8.

Installation

• .sty -> $TEXMF/tex/latex/gentombow
• .tex, .pdf -> $TEXMF/doc/latex/gentombow

Repository

The bundle is maintained on GitHub: https://github.com/aminophen/gentombow

License

The bundle may be distributed and/or modified under the terms of the 3-clause BSD license (see LICENSE).

Release Date

2022-09-10

Hironobu Yamashita