\setuplayout parameters

\setuplayout parameters

[John Culleton]

I want to set up a book 5.5 x 8.5 with .5in margins left and right. 
During the development process I want to be able to print it on
US standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper.

Here is my current prologue (I have tried several):
\setupoutput[pdftex]
\definepapersize[bok][width=5.5in,height=8.5in]
\setuppapersize[bok][letter]
\setuplayout[marginwidth=.5in,location=middle]
\showframe

When the resultant pdf is printed via Acrobat Reader I find the 
following anomalies:

Total width of page outline: 5 7/16 in.
Width of actual text block: 4.5 in approx. (this is OK.)
Width of text block outline: 3 29/32 in (text overlaps block outline.)
And so on. There are gaps between the margin outlines and the text 
block outline. The margin outlines are the wrong size. 

When I put the document in final form with
\setuppapersize{bok][bok]
and comment out \showframe
Then the text block is not quite centered: the left margin is smaller 
than the right margin. 

Using Xpdf instead of Acrobat Reader shows the same anomalies.
Changing marginwidth to margin shows the same anomalies. and so on.



-- 
John Culleton
Able Typesetters and Indexers
http://wexfordpress.com

Re: \setuplayout parameters

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:00 07/08/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I want to set up a book 5.5 x 8.5 with .5in margins left and right.
>During the development process I want to be able to print it on
>US standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper.
>
>Here is my current prologue (I have tried several):
>\setupoutput[pdftex]
>\definepapersize[bok][width=5.5in,height=8.5in]
>\setuppapersize[bok][letter]
>\setuplayout[marginwidth=.5in,location=middle]

\setuplayout[....,width=middle]

(location=middle centers on the paper)

Hans
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Re: \setuplayout parameters

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hello John,

John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> writes:

> I want to set up a book 5.5 x 8.5 with .5in margins left and right. 
> During the development process I want to be able to print it on
> US standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper.
>
> Here is my current prologue (I have tried several):
> \setupoutput[pdftex]
> \definepapersize[bok][width=5.5in,height=8.5in]
> \setuppapersize[bok][letter]
> \setuplayout[marginwidth=.5in,location=middle]
> \showframe

The problem here is that you need to play with backspace, leftmargin
and leftmargindistance. To verify, use the layout[1] module  and add

\usemodule [layout]
\ShowLayout[units=in]

in your document. The default in ConTeXt is that 
leftmargin + leftmargindistance > backspace, so the layout gets
"shifted" a bit. It is not really a shift, because the backspace
parameter sets the left edge of the text.

[1] see http://levana.de/context/

Patrick