From: Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Why is the page off?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 19:03:36 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1499065416.14796.79.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1499064138.14796.77.camel@gmail.com>
On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 18:42 +1200, Henri Menke wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 01:48 -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 2 Jul 2017, Henri Menke wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Why is the page shifted? Reproducible in TL2017 and latest beta. See
> > > also attached. MWE is below.
> > Why do you think that the page is shifted? Or are you asking why does the
> > default layout set the left margin width to be larger than the backspace?
Just found this in "page-lay.mkiv"
%D The default dimensions are quite old and will not change.
%D The funny fractions were introduced when we went from fixed
%D dimensions to relative ones. Since \CONTEXT\ is a dutch
%D package, the dimensions are based on the metric system. The
%D asymmetrical layout is kind of handy for short
%D quick||and||dirty stapled documents.
> How about this? By default text in the margin can run off the page. Also the whole layout is
> symmetric (margin widths, margin distances) but shifted to the left. This looks like a bug to me.
> Furthermore it doesn't make sense to have a non-centred text block for onesided typesetting.
>
>
> \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape]
> \setuppaper[nx=2]
> \setuparranging[XY]
>
> \showframe
>
> \starttext
> Foo\page Bar\inleft{Foobarb}
> \stoptext
>
> >
> >
> > Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-03 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-02 3:17 Henri Menke
2017-07-03 5:48 ` Aditya Mahajan
2017-07-03 6:42 ` Henri Menke
2017-07-03 7:03 ` Henri Menke [this message]
2017-07-03 7:09 ` Hans Hagen
2017-07-03 9:00 ` Henri Menke
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