From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7542 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill McClain Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Asymmetric margins Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 07:47:37 -0600 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020405074737.6d43d333.wmcclain@salamander.com> References: <02040414554100.25206@publish> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397997 20087 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:33:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:33:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <02040414554100.25206@publish> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7542 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7542 On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:55:41 -0500 John Culleton wrote: > I would like to set up: > left margin=.5in and right margin= 1.5in for right hand pages, > left margin=1.5in and right margin .5in for left hand pages. > > This leaves room for a sidebar (marginal text) on the outer > edge of either page type. I haven't tried putting anything in the margins yet, but I want to use marginal notes extensively in my next projects, so I am interested in this also. Here is how I've controlled margin widths for a book layout. This turns on right-left mirroring: \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] Say the page width is 8.5in. I want a 1in gutter on the inside margin of each page, and a 1.5in margin on the outer edge. \setuplayout[backspace=1in, width=6in] "backspace" is the gutter, "width" is the text area, and whatever is left over is the outer margin: 8.5 - 1 - 6 = 1.5 As far as I can see, the outer margin is not specified directly. The page width is an implicit factor in the calculation. -Bill