From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/65117 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Feature request: setuppapersize Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:29:03 +0100 Message-ID: <4D2B099F.5050106@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294666181 23497 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2011 13:29:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:29:41 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jan 10 14:29:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PcHoV-0007cQ-KQ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:29:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8EC5CAA9E; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:29:34 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id S6L4kOVrxOTp; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:29:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80134CAA8D; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:29:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62346CA969 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:29:30 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id a8nHygCFdlE4 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:29:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A162CAA8C for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:29:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p0ADTIIo030720 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:29:18 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 4.3g4) with ESMTP id 353-1713362 for multiple; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:29:12 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 ThunderBrowse/3.3.4 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.5 (Score 0, tokens from: ) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0eDRNtiNx - ed53ac8c0f45 - 20110110 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:65117 Archived-At: On 9-1-2011 12:45, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Hans, > > Since we have some leverage with backward compatibility in MkIV, can we > make \setuppapersize (slightly) more intuitive. > > Normally, one would expect > > \setuppapersize[A5] > > to be equivalent to > > \setuppapersize[A5][A5] > > but currently it is equivalent to > > \setuppapersize[A5][A4] > > This is a bit confusing, and means that we always have to specify the > printpaper size; even if it is equal to paper size. Can we modify the > definition of \dodefinepapersize to change this behavior? > > \def\dodefinepapersize[#1][#2][#3]% > {\ifsecondargument > \doifsomething{#1} % to be sure > {\doifassignmentelse{#2} > {\getparameters > [\??pp#1] % geen \c!scale, scheelt hash ruimte > [\c!width=\@@ppwidth,\c!height=\@@ppheight,\c!offset=\@@ppoffset,#2]% > %AM: Added these two lines > \setvalue{\??pp:1:#1}{#1}% > \setvalue{\??pp:2:#1}{#1}}% > {\setvalue{\??pp:1:#1}{#2}% > \setvalue{\??pp:2:#1}{#3}}}% (*) see below > \else > \getparameters[\??pp][#1]% > \setuppapersize % hm. this will freeze ! > \fi} > > Perhaps, in line (*), we should also check if #3 is something, otherwise > set ??p:2:#1 to #2: > > \doifsomethingelse{#3} > {\setvalue\??pp:2:#1}{#3}} > {\setvalue\??pp:2:#1}{#2}} > > > What do you think? more elegant and downward compatible is this: \definepapersize [samesized] [ \c!width=\paperwidth, \c!height=\paperheight] \setuppapersize [A4][samesized] in page-lay.mkiv ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________