From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7546 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Asymmetric margins Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 19:27:41 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020405192201.02b0f540@server-1> References: <02040414554100.25206@publish> <02040414554100.25206@publish> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398001 20109 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:33:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:33:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Bill McClain In-Reply-To: <20020405074737.6d43d333.wmcclain@salamander.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7546 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7546 At 07:47 AM 4/5/2002 -0600, you wrote: >On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:55:41 -0500 >John Culleton wrote: > > > I would like to set up: > > left margin=.5in and right margin= 1.5in for right hand pages, > > left margin=1.5in and right margin .5in for left hand pages. > > > > This leaves room for a sidebar (marginal text) on the outer > > edge of either page type. > >I haven't tried putting anything in the margins yet, but I want to use >marginal notes extensively in my next projects, so I am interested in >this also. hm, i've done a lot of margin stuff last days (stacking graphics in margins and edges, on grids, spanning areas, etc) so you can imaging that it is somehow possible to use the margins -) >Here is how I've controlled margin widths for a book layout. > >This turns on right-left mirroring: > > \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] right, but alternative={doublesided,singlesided} gives you a non mirrored alternative >Say the page width is 8.5in. I want a 1in gutter on the inside margin of >each page, and a 1.5in margin on the outer edge. > > \setuplayout[backspace=1in, width=6in] (in the latest version there is also cutspace) >"backspace" is the gutter, "width" is the text area, and whatever is >left over is the outer margin: > > 8.5 - 1 - 6 = 1.5 > >As far as I can see, the outer margin is not specified directly. The >page width is an implicit factor in the calculation. you can specify backspace=1in,cutspace=1.5in,width=middle indeed the page width is importasnt, which is why you can say: \definepapersize[WhyUseInches][width=8.5in,height=14in] \setuppapersize[WhyUseInches][letter] \setuplayout[location=middle,marking=on] etc etc Also, you can specify leftmargin/rightmargin etc but those are virtual Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-ade.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------