Re: Setting up a project

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

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:30:13 -0500
"Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 21, 2007 4:08 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
> <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > >       textwidth=288pt, textheight=432pt,
> >
> > replace these two lines with
> >
> > width=288pt and height=432pt
> >
> > don't use textwidth and textheight in \setuplayout.
> 
> Actually, "width=288pt, textheight=432pt," gives me exactly the result
> I wanted.  I'd just like to be able to set the distance between the
> top of the paper and the top of the text area directly, as in
> 	header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, something=72pt
> rather than what I'm currently using:
> 	header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, topspace=48pt, % 48 = 72 - (12+12)
> Is this possible, and what is the something's name?
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Ya think maybe? ;)
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> --Joel

\setuplayout
  [marking=on,
   location=middle,
   width=288pt,
   height=432pt,
   header=12pt,
   headerdistance=12pt,
   topspace=\dimexpr72pt-\headerheight-\headerdistance\relax,
   footer=\headerheight,
   footerdistance=\headerdistance,
   %bottomspace=144pt, % calculated by ConTeXt
   leftmargindistance=12pt,
   leftmargin=24pt,
   backspace=48pt,
   rightmargindistance=\leftmargindistance,
   rightmargin=\leftmarginwidth]

You should also avoid to use set the headerdistance, the textheight and
the bottomdistances at the same time, try to set only two dimension and
let TeX calculate the third dimension itself.

Wolfgang
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