I'm asking questions (1) and (3) since the main manual was written in 2001.

Best,
Alan

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Alan Stone
<software.list.1es9s@gmail.com>wrote:

> (1) The main manual mentions (bottom of pg 78) "setting the state is done
> for the whole header" and (bottom of page 79) "the keys state, before and
> after work on all parts of the pagebody, main text, margins and edges.
>
> So there's no way to set the text/margin/edge states separately ?
> ( I need different visible/invisible settings for standard, frontapart and
> backpart )
>
> (2) pg 80 table 4.5: what's the difference between state=normal and
> state=start ?
>
> (3) in \setup*[margin/edge] ( * = top/header/footer/bottom ), how do you
> differentiate between
> the left and right margin/edge areas ?
>
> Thanks and have a great weekend,
> Alan
>