Re: a problem with left margin or edge

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 11:38 PM 7/26/2001 -0500, A. Villaveces wrote:
>Hi again,
>
>for some strange reason, \setuplayout[] does not seem to act on left
>margins or edges. I have been unable to change them by using
>\setuplayout[leftmarginwidth=xxcm] and the like. I tried all the
>parameters that appear on the documentation with no effect.
>
>When using \showlayout, I get values of 0.0 cm for leftmargin and
>leftedge, even when I "set them up" to be different from 0. The width of
>the text DOES work. Right margins and edges do work. But ConTeXt seems
>to have something preventing it from changing left margins!
>
>Any help would be strongly appreciated!

the margins are virtual, the main ones are

topspace
backspace
width
height

headers and footers are path of the height
margins and edges are virtual and positioned relatively
so, try to change backspace

Hans

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