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From: Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>
To: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \pagewidth undefined?
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 00:54:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C7CC0EF5-3011-42E1-A495-E7E1AC69B0E9@rna.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d9548730-4538-8aab-985e-69dcfff02100@xs4all.nl>


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> On 19 May 2020, at 20:11, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> On 5/19/2020 5:37 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Gerben Wierda schrieb am 19.05.2020 um 13:42:
>>> OK. I just noticed in lmtx documentation that \paperheight and \paperwidth primitives have been removed, but there is no information what rteplaces them. So, all the documentation that contains them has been invalidated (e.g. examples in details.pdf)
>> I can't find \pagewidth in the current versison of details.pdf.
>> As Pablo wrote you can use \paperwidth (or \printpaperwidth) or one of the following methods.
>> %%%% begin example
>> \setupexternalfigures[location=default]
>> \setuplayout[tight]
>> \showframe
>> \starttext
>> \centerbox{\externalfigure[mill.png][width=\textwidth]}
>> \page
>> \centerbox{\externalfigure[mill.png][width=\paperwidth]}
>> \page
>> \centerbox{\externalfigure[mill.png][factor=max]}
>> \page
>> \centerbox{\externalfigure[mill.png][factor=min]}
>> \stoptext
>> %%%% end example
> 
> \pagewidth etc were low level engine primitives that were never meant to be used directly (backend related, and even then very sensitive for confusion); as Wolfgang indicated, these were never supposed to be used directly

Thanks all. I moved to this:

\setuppapersize[A4]
\setuplayout
  [page]
  [backspace=5mm,
   topspace=5mm]
\setuplayout [page]

and using \textwidth and \textheight.

G

> 
> Hans
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2020-05-19 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-19  9:58 Gerben Wierda
2020-05-19 11:42 ` Gerben Wierda
2020-05-19 14:39   ` Pablo Rodriguez
2020-05-19 15:37   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-05-19 18:11     ` Hans Hagen
2020-05-19 22:54       ` Gerben Wierda [this message]

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