Re: Questions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:05 PM 7/31/00 -0700, David Arnold wrote:
>All,
>
>With this layout
>
>\setuppapersize[S6][S6]
>
>\setuplayout
>[header=0cm,
> topspace=.5cm,
> backspace=2cm,
> margindistance=0.5cm, %0.5cm
> margin=1cm,
> rightmargin=0.0cm, %0.0cm
> rightedge=5.0cm, %rightedge=2.0cm
> edgedistance=0.5cm, %edgedistance=0.5cm
> width=fit,
> footer=1cm,
> height=middle]
>
>can anyone explain to me how that spce between the rightedge and the edge
>of the page is calculated? Maybe the more correct question is this: How is
>the width of the text area calculated? What's the arithmetic formula? That
>is, \makeupwidth=? What is the formula if I change to width=middle? I wish
>these formulae were in the English manual.

either look in main-001.tex : \resetlayout, which will also teach you a bit
dutch or look in mp-page.mp, which shows my bad english. The formulas will
make you wish you never asked this question -) 

As (i suppose) the manual says, margins and edges are virtual. So, they
don't count in calculations of width. The fit option is meant for screen
docs, and compensates for backspace too as good as possible in order to get
a symmetrical layout. [which is not needed for paper]. Some info on this
may go into the manual on screen docs, but is not useful for paper work. As
soon as you start using background offsets, you need to spec the dimensions
yourself. 

Hans
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