On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

indeed, you have to see these dimensions outwards (so, margindistance,
margin, edgedistance, edge ... these extend into the backspace or
cutspace depending on left/right)

Ahaa. I'm beginning to understand.

Meanwhile found the underneath document, which seems to be the most corresponding
( though incomplete compared to pg 24 of the main manual )

Shows a page layout in half size
http://levana.de/context/layout/testlay.pdf

Thanks all,
Alan