Re: Setting up a project

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:09:26 -0500
"Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 21, 2007 2:01 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
> <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > What do you mean by the rectangle around the text area.
> 
> Here's the project I'm compiling (as it currently stands), condensed
> into a single file:
> 
> \definepapersize[sixbynine][width=6in,height=9in]
> \setuppapersize[sixbynine][letter]
> \setuplayout
> 	[marking=on, location=middle,
> 	textwidth=288pt, textheight=432pt,

replace these two lines with

width=288pt and height=432pt

don't use textwidth and textheight in \setuplayout.

> 	header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, topspace=72pt,
> 	footer=12pt, footerdistance=12pt, bottomspace=144pt,
> 	leftmargindistance=12pt, leftmargin=24pt, backspace=48pt,
> 	rightmargindistance=12pt, rightmargin=24pt]
> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
> \showframe
> \starttext
> \title{Preface}
> A few paragraphs of {\em Lorem ipsum} text.
> \stoptext
> 
> The center rectangle, surrounding the text area, seems to have its
> left & right margins some distance from the actual text.  How do I set
> that distance, and why is it different from the leftmargindistance?

leftmargindistance is only the distance between the textarea and the
left box for the left margin, the layout concept could be a little bit
confusing.

Wolfgang
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