From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Margin terminology -- badly documented, undocumented, or misdocumented
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:23:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B864F88.6040201@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <771da05a1002242039x6086f7bbi31d0b1090634f842@mail.gmail.com>
On 25-2-2010 5:39, James Fisher wrote:
> Hi all.
>
>
> I am trying to understand the terminology for the \definelayout and
> \setuplayout commands.
> Unfortunately the documentation at
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layoutdoesn't correspond to the actual
> output I get.
> Nor does the 'documentation' at http://getfo.org/context_xml/page3.html ,
> which the first page recommends.
> More, the two pages seem pretty contradictory.
>
> Consider my situation: I'm trying to set up an A4 page with the following
> margins (I use the term margin to mean the space from the edge of the
> physical paper to the edge of the body text area):
>
> top: 2.97cm
> bottom: 2.97cm
> left: 2.1cm
> right: 2.1cm
>
> For the moment, I don't care at all about header and footer space, nor notes
> in the margins; I'm just trying to get the above margins.
> However, with all conceivable combinations of commands at both of those
> pages, I've been unable to set anything like this up.
>
> Based on the getfo.org page, I should be able to set up these left and right
> margins with:
\setuplayout
[backspace=2.1cm,
cutspace=2.1cm,
width=middle,
topspace=2.97cm,
bottomspace=2.97cm,
height=middle]
\showframe
\starttext
\input tufte
\stoptext
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-25 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-25 4:39 James Fisher
2010-02-25 10:23 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2010-02-25 10:57 ` R. Bastian
2010-02-25 20:17 ` James Fisher
2010-02-26 9:03 ` luigi scarso
2010-03-02 11:03 ` Hans Hagen
2010-03-02 21:33 ` James Fisher
2010-03-02 21:42 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-03-02 21:59 ` James Fisher
2010-03-02 23:18 ` luigi scarso
2010-03-08 9:21 ` Hans Hagen
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