Re: Improving the Documentation of Context

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 13:20 15/06/2003 +0900, you wrote:
>Matthias Vogel wrote:
>
>>I think it would be nice to have the manuals improved in the
>>following not very costly way (??? indicates my ignorance):
>>
>>\setuplayout[..,..=..,..]
>>width             dimension fit middle .....    width, ??? and 
>>orientation of main text
>>height            dimension fit middle .....    height of main text
>>backspace         dimension
>>topspace          dimension
>>margin            dimension
>>nx                number.....................   ???
>>ny                number.....................   ???
>>dx                dimension..................   ???
>>dy                dimension..................   ???
>>lines             number.....................   number of lines on the page
>>                                                 [I don't know the 
>> relation to height]
>>grid              yes no.....................   invoking setting to grit
>>
>>Since the manual doesn't even mention all those options, even a very
>>short hint is much better than just trying around to get an idea what's
>>the idea of an option.
>
>I usually find the "etexshow" mode for Emacs helpful.   It gives you easy 
>access to the details of ConTeXt commands.

as soon as i have a couple of thinsg up and running, the setup xml files 
will be extended with such extra info

Hans
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