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>3. Can somebody describe backspace to me? What exactly, is backspace, in
>the layout of a context doc?

In dutch: rugwit, the amount of white-space between the left-edge of the
paper and the actual text:

Paper:
+-----------------------------------.....
|                  ^
|                  topspace
|                  v
|               +-------------........
|<- backspace ->|Chapter one: Here we go....
|               |
|               |
|               .
.
.

Gilbert.