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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: layout space between paper and text
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:48:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F15D089.50206@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F0C884C3-BF3D-427B-B74B-05B56452CE1B@googlemail.com>

On 17-1-2012 19:39, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> When you want to set all values to zero and only a few to certain value you first clone the “page” layout (where everything is zero) and set then the rest to desired value.
>
>
> The horizontal dimensions are determined by the three values
>
> - backspace (distance from the left/inner margin)
> - cutspace (distance from the right/outer margin)
> - width (width of the textblock)
>
> Normally you need only two values because when you set backspace + width the cutspace is calculated and when you set backspace + cutspace you can write width=middle and the width of the text block will be calculated.
>
>
> The vertical dimensions are calculated also three values
>
> - topspace (distance from the top margin)
> - bottomspace (distance from the bottom margin)
> - height (height of the textblock)
>
> You need here also only two value, topspace + height which all calculate the bottomspace or topspace + bottomspace in combination with height=middle.
>
>
> I haven’t mentioned the header and footer above because they are part of the textblock and will take space from this area.
>
>
> When you use the information above for a layout you need
>
> \definelayout
>    [middle]
>    [page]
>    [backspace=10mm,
>     topspace=10mm,
>     height=210mm,
>     height=277mm]
>
> \setuplayout[middle]
>
> \showframe[text][text]
>
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth\par}
> \stoptext

nice tip ... up to Pavel to wikify this ...

Hans

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-01-17 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-17 11:38 Pavel Dohnal
2012-01-17 13:43 ` Vladimir Lomov
2012-01-17 18:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-01-17 19:48   ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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