Going back to my example (see below)...

Same observations, same questions.

Alan

\setuppapersize[S6][S6]

\setuplayout[topheight=15pt,
    headerheight=15pt,
    footerheight=15pt,
    bottomheight=15pt,
    leftedgewidth=0pt,
    leftmarginwidth=0pt,
    rightmarginwidth=0pt,
    rightedgewidth=180pt]

\showframe
\showsetups

\starttext
testing
\stoptext


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> Alan Stone wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Where did you see topheight, headerheight, footerheight, and
> bottomheight?
> >> Perhaps you wanted
> >>
> >> \setuppapersize[S6][S6]
> >>
> >> \showframe
> >> \showsetups
>
> move the previous line
>
> >>
> >> \setuplayout[topspace=15pt,
> >>   header=15pt,
> >>   height=middle,
> >>   footer=15pt,
> >>   bottomspace=15pt,
> >>   backspace=0pt,
> >>   width=middle,
> >>   cutspace=180pt]
> >>
> >> \starttext
>
> to here
>
> >> testing
> >> \stoptext
> >>
> >> Aditya
> >>
> >
> > Although this isn't what I want, you'll notice none of the \showsetups
> > output values correspond to the \setuplayout settings.
> >
> > What's missing to make this work ?
> >
> > Best,
> > Alan
>