Newbie question re duplex tabloid landscape

Newbie question re duplex tabloid landscape

[Stan Norton]

I'm trying to lay out a prototype which will essentially be a set of tables
which are *large* and which will print across two opposing tabloid pages.
I've been wrestling with this for a quite while now and have decided to
forgo my (failing) brut force approach for some expert advice. I'd
appreciate any direction on how to produce a duplex printable tabloid page
with text occupying most of the page.  Thank you.

This setup:

-------------------
\setuppapersize [tabloid,90] [tabloid,landscape]
\setupbodyfont [1br,6pt]
\setupheadertexts [alfa] [beta]
\showsetups

\starttext
\dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par }
\stoptext
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-gives me a standard tabloid portrait page rotated:

\paperwidth  is 27.x cm
\paperheight is 43.x cm

\printpaperwidth is
while
\printpaperheight interesting remains 43.x cm

\textwidth is 19.x cm

-If I try to reset widths:
\setuplayout [paperwidth=120cm,printpaperwidth=120cm, width=.9\paperwidth]

I get a \textwidth of 25.x cm, although other width parameters don't change
and 25.x appears to be a limit on \textwidth no matter how wide I set width.

Also,  if I use *any* \setuplayout parameters (like location=duplex or middle) the page shifts
to the left off the printpage.

What is the best way to force an increase in textwidth to tabloid landscape
in a double sided environment. Will table mode follow? I've yet to wrestle
with it.

Thank you. 

Re: Newbie question re duplex tabloid landscape

[Hans Hagen]

At 01:58 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, Stan Norton wrote:

>I'm trying to lay out a prototype which will essentially be a set of tables
>which are *large* and which will print across two opposing tabloid pages.
>I've been wrestling with this for a quite while now and have decided to
>forgo my (failing) brut force approach for some expert advice. I'd
>appreciate any direction on how to produce a duplex printable tabloid page
>with text occupying most of the page.  Thank you.
>
>This setup:
>
>-------------------
>\setuppapersize [tabloid,90] [tabloid,landscape]
>\setupbodyfont [1br,6pt]
>\setupheadertexts [alfa] [beta]
>\showsetups
>
>\starttext
>\dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par }
>\stoptext
>------------------
>
>-gives me a standard tabloid portrait page rotated:
>
>\paperwidth  is 27.x cm
>\paperheight is 43.x cm
>
>\printpaperwidth is
>while
>\printpaperheight interesting remains 43.x cm
>
>\textwidth is 19.x cm
>
>-If I try to reset widths:
>\setuplayout [paperwidth=120cm,printpaperwidth=120cm, width=.9\paperwidth]
>
>I get a \textwidth of 25.x cm, although other width parameters don't change
>and 25.x appears to be a limit on \textwidth no matter how wide I set width.
>
>Also,  if I use *any* \setuplayout parameters (like location=duplex or 
>middle) the page shifts
>to the left off the printpage.
>
>What is the best way to force an increase in textwidth to tabloid landscape
>in a double sided environment. Will table mode follow? I've yet to wrestle
>with it.

you use the wrong parameters

\setuppapersize[tabloid,landscape][tabloid,landscape]
\setuplayoout[backspace=2cm,width=middle,topspace=2cm,height=middle]

adn things like that

Hans
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