From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12814 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: \setuplayout parameters Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:00:24 -0400 Organization: WexfordPress Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <200308071200.24945.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1060272241 32744 80.91.224.253 (7 Aug 2003 16:04:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:04:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Aug 07 18:04:24 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19knFY-0001Pp-00 for ; Thu, 07 Aug 2003 18:04:24 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC6910B81; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:04:18 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mta4.adelphia.net (mta4.adelphia.net [64.8.50.184]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734DE10B80 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:58:51 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from md-wmnsmd-cuda2-c3e-67-21-50-181.chvlva.adelphia.net ([67.21.50.181]) by mta4.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030807155850.GSNB11778.mta4.adelphia.net@md-wmnsmd-cuda2-c3e-67-21-50-181.chvlva.adelphia.net> for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:58:50 -0400 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:12814 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12814 I want to set up a book 5.5 x 8.5 with .5in margins left and right. During the development process I want to be able to print it on US standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. Here is my current prologue (I have tried several): \setupoutput[pdftex] \definepapersize[bok][width=5.5in,height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[bok][letter] \setuplayout[marginwidth=.5in,location=middle] \showframe When the resultant pdf is printed via Acrobat Reader I find the following anomalies: Total width of page outline: 5 7/16 in. Width of actual text block: 4.5 in approx. (this is OK.) Width of text block outline: 3 29/32 in (text overlaps block outline.) And so on. There are gaps between the margin outlines and the text block outline. The margin outlines are the wrong size. When I put the document in final form with \setuppapersize{bok][bok] and comment out \showframe Then the text block is not quite centered: the left margin is smaller than the right margin. Using Xpdf instead of Acrobat Reader shows the same anomalies. Changing marginwidth to margin shows the same anomalies. and so on. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com