From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/47349 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Junod Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: layout problem Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:52:54 +0100 Message-ID: <873aenl9x5.fsf@zapata.tots-ns.net> References: <87skmnafcl.fsf@zapata.tots-ns.net> <49903770.50009@gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234205710 31692 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2009 18:55:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:55:10 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Feb 09 19:56:23 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LWbIm-0008DH-75 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:56:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3778A1FB5B; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 19:54:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08643-02; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 19:53:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3371E1FADF; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 19:53:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D28F31FADF for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 19:53:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03246-05 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 19:52:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49ACB1FADC for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 19:52:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from zapata.tots-ns.net (zapata.tots-ns.net [213.239.193.37]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n19Iqsqq026546 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 19:52:54 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 5661 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Feb 2009 18:52:54 -0000 In-Reply-To: <49903770.50009@gmail.com> (Wolfgang Schuster's message of "Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:02:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.239.193.37; country=DE; region=02; city=Gunzenhausen; latitude=49.1000; longitude=10.7500; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=49.1000,10.7500&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 177258888 - 23a3e49b34a7 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:47349 Archived-At: Wolfgang Schuster writes: > Antoine Junod schrieb: >> Dear list, >> I've got two layout problems I can't resolve by myself: >> * On the left pages, in the left margin, there is a white stripe. I >> don't really understand why. I've read on the wiki that when we >> describe a layout for a double page layout, the left pages layout is >> a mirror of the right ones. And on the right ones, there are no >> white stripes... > > A5 paper has not the exactly the half size as A4 paper. > > A4 has a height of 297mm and A5 a width of 148mm. > > 297 - 2 * 148 = 1mm (the gap on the left side). So, for the record, the only solution I found to center my two A5 pages on the A4 one is to add veroffset=.5mm (ie, half of Wolfgang's milimeter) to the layout definition. If anybody has something better, feel free to complete the thread :) All the best, -AJ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________