Re: setting default page size in ConTeXt?

[Tobias Burnus <burnus@gmx.de>]

Thomas Porter wrote:
> 
> Well, since the newest context did not like me running pdftex 13.d, and I got
> weird '...doclipping...' error messages on my test file, I re-installed my
> tetex 1.0 RPM's on my redhat system, and started going to work getting it set
> up again:
> 
> -set the default papersize in xdvi and dvips to US letter.
> 
> -got my modes and default printer set.
> 
> -added etex to the ConTeXt paths in texmf.cnf
> 
> -uncommented out the ConTeXt formats in fmtutil.cnf.
> 
> -created the ConTeXt formats for en nl and de.
> 
> -changed the default papersize in pdftex.cfg from A4 to US letter
> 
> After all that, I can use pdflatex to produce 8.5 x 11 documents from LaTeX
> source, but running texexec --pdf on ctest.tex (included below) results in an
> A4 page size as reported by acroread.  I am stumped and have not found a place
> to set paper size in ConTeXt.

How about:
\setuppapersize[letter][letter] %% Print the document in lettersize on a
lettersize paper

If you always want to have this size, you might want to create a file
cont-sys.tex, in which you put your defaults.
(maybe using \writestring{MY PERSONAL SETTINGS!} or so, makeing it easier to
remember, to include this file, when you give the TeX file away. This file is
included automatically.)

Maybe you need to use this command to:
\setuplayout   %% This is the s-green = s-pre-02 style, so the layout isn't
suiteable for letter format
  [backspace=1cm,
   topspace=1cm,
   margin=0pt,
   header=0pt,
   footer=0pt,
   bottomdistance=.875cm,
   bottom=1cm,
   width=fit,
   height=fit]

Tobias