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