From: "Alan Stone" <software.list.1es9s@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Still confused about \setuplayout
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:42:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <326847810808270842v3f5f79fdld904c8fe9023927d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B56DC6.90105@elvenkind.com>
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Thanks Taco.
>I am somewhat confused myself as to why this is generally considered to be
so confusing.
What's most confusing are the:
- wiki layout explanation at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout
- \showsetups output
- excursion manual, table 33.2 page 74
- main manual page 24
- \setuplayout texshow page
each one listing the same thing similarly or differently using either
arguments, parameters
and/or variables, the latter of which for the most have nothing to do with
the \setuplayout
arguments ( or are these parameters, or variables ? )
Best,
Alan
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> Alan Stone wrote:
> >
> > CanItBeAnyMoreConfusingText ?
>
> From left to right, you have:
>
> (left)edge
> (left)edgedistance
> (left)margin
> (left)margindistance
> width
> (right)margindistance
> (right)margin
> (right)edgedistance
> (right)edge
>
> The location of all this on the paper is defined by backspace, which
> gives the distance between the appropriate (left or right) edge of the
> text width and the physical paper edge.
>
> Similar logic applies in the vertical direction. \showlayout will
> give the current values and keys (put it after \starttext, it generates
> four pages of typeset information). I am somewhat confused myself as to
> why this is generally considered to be so confusing.
>
> In vertical mode, it goes like this
>
> top
> topdistance
> header
> headerdistance
> textheight
> footerdistance
> footer
> bottomdistance
> bottom
>
> "height" sets up the dimension that controls the inner five areas
> (header ... footer). "topspace" is the distance between the vertical
> top edge of the paper and the top of "header".
>
> You can put \showlayout after \starttext. It will generate four pages
> of settings (because of double-sided ness).
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
>
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-26 16:29 Alan Stone
2008-08-26 9:17 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-08-27 7:23 ` Alan Stone
2008-08-27 11:22 ` Alan Stone
2008-08-27 11:27 ` Hans Hagen
2008-08-27 12:36 ` Alan Stone
2008-08-27 12:41 ` Hans Hagen
2008-08-27 13:31 ` Alan Stone
2008-08-27 13:36 ` Hans Hagen
2008-08-27 14:05 ` Alan Stone
2008-08-27 14:47 ` Hans Hagen
2008-08-27 15:12 ` Alan Stone
2008-08-27 15:53 ` Patrick Gundlach
2008-08-28 8:15 ` Alan Stone
2008-08-28 8:34 ` Yue Wang
2008-08-28 9:54 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-08-28 14:03 ` Alan Stone
2008-08-27 15:07 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-08-27 15:42 ` Alan Stone [this message]
2008-08-27 16:15 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-08-27 16:37 ` Alan Stone
2008-08-27 16:47 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-08-27 13:09 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-08-27 13:28 ` Alan Stone
2008-08-26 16:54 ` Peter Rolf
2008-08-26 17:07 ` Alan Stone
2008-08-26 18:43 ` Peter Rolf
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