XY and papersize

XY and papersize

[Claus, Matt - eSpeed]

Hello - I recently discovered Context so let me first of all say a big
thank you to Hans for creating such an amazing piece of software and
making it available.

Now, the question - this works exactly as I expect:

\setupcolors[state=start]
\setuppagenumbering[state=stop]
\setuppapersize [XY][A4]
\setuppaper[nx=3,ny=10,dx=0mm,dy=0mm,topspace=5mm,backspace=5mm]
\setuplayout [location=middle]
\setuparranging [XY]
\showframe
\starttext \dorecurse{15}{test \recurselevel \page} \stoptext

However, when I change A4 to letter the output seems to introduce some
"dy".  I experimented with some other paper sizes including defining my
own and see inconsistent results.  Can anyone point out what I'm doing
incorrectly?

Thank you very much for any assistance,
Matt


\setupcolors[state=start]
\setuppagenumbering[state=stop]
\setuppapersize [XY][letter]
\setuppaper[nx=3,ny=10,dx=0mm,dy=0mm,topspace=5mm,backspace=5mm]
\setuplayout [location=middle]
\setuparranging [XY]
\showframe
\starttext \dorecurse{15}{test \recurselevel \page} \stoptext 


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Re: XY and papersize

[Taco Hoekwater]

Claus, Matt - eSpeed wrote:
> 
> However, when I change A4 to letter the output seems to introduce some
> "dy".  I experimented with some other paper sizes including defining my
> own and see inconsistent results.  Can anyone point out what I'm doing
> incorrectly?

It looks about right to me (using the latest context) but I could be
wrong. It might help to explictly define the "XY" paper size.

   \definepapersize[XY][width=2.5in,height=1in]

Taco

Re: XY and papersize

[Matt Claus]

To summarize, Taco kindly solved this problem after exchanging some messages
with me off list - thank you Taco.

The key is, when using a papersize other than the A4 default with XY, it is
necessary to first explicitly set the appropriate papersize.  This enables
the XY calculations to expand properly.

For example:

\setuppapersize[letter][letter]
\setuppapersize [XY][letter]
\setuppaper[nx=3,ny=10,dx=2mm,dy=0mm,topspace=5mm,backspace=5mm]
\setuplayout [location=middle]
\setuparranging [XY]
\showframe
\starttext \dorecurse{30}{test} \stoptext

This is a very handy way to generate a centered layout for labels of any
size.  The spacing between the labels is easily controlled with dx and dy.

Thanks for the help solving this,
Matt