Re: Setting up a project

["Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>]

On Dec 21, 2007 3:19 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> \setuppapersize[sixbynine][oversized]
> \setuplayout[marking=on]

Cool!  Is there a way to center the 6″×9″ page on 8½″×11″ paper?  I've tried
	\setuppapersize[sixbynine][letter]
but that puts the page in the upper-left corner.  Right now I'm using
	\setuppapersize[sixbynine][sixbynine]
and having Acrobat Reader center this on the printed page.  (Which
might well be the best way to do this.)

> use \showframe
>
> stat with defining headers and footers and then set topspace and
> backspace dimensions

Thanks; now I can see what I'm doing.

On Dec 21, 2007 3:55 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> you can omit the project file, I use it myself only for documents where
> I use the same layout for more than one product/Dokument.

I assume that I'd replace every instance of "\project
firefly_novelization_proj" with "\environment
firefly_novelization_env", correct?  But keeping the project file
isn't much hassle, and there might be two volumes, so...

> How to use th Gentium fonts with ConTeXt have been asked

My use of Gentium is a temporary thing for the OpenOffice mockup; I'm
asking for type suggestions on Typophile.  For the nonce I'l be
satisfied with the Latin Modern fonts.

> You forgot \setuppagenumbering[location=doublesided] in your
> environment to get a doublesided document.

Thanks; that was not obvious from any sample document I've seen.

> \setuplayout
>   [backspace=48pt,
<snip>
>    footerdistance=12pt]

I'm using
	\setuplayout
		[marking=on
		%backspace=48pt, cutspace=96pt,
		backspace=36pt, cutspace=84pt,
		width=fit, height=fit,
		%topspace=72pt,
		topspace=48pt, header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt,
		%bottomspace=144pt,
		bottomspace=120pt, footer=12pt, footerdistance=12pt]
right now.  Notice the backspace & cutspace values; the values you
gave me defined some sort of left and right marginal areas with a
separation between them and the main text area, and I wanted the text
area to be 6″×9″.  Now I'm thinking there must be a clearer way to
express it, something like:
	width=288pt, height=432pt,
	header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt,
	footer=12pt, footerdistance=12pt,
	left**=48pt, right**=96pt, top**=72pt, bottom**=144pt,
	something to define an outer marginal area; I don't intend to put
anything in the inner margin]
where the left** &c. define the distance between the paper's edge and
the edge of the text area.  Is this what the edgedistance values are?

> You could try to read the example layouts on the wiki.

I'm using those for ideas too; I'm still missing some important things though.

--Joel
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