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From: Sylvain Hubert <champignoom@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Why is the textarea not centered by default?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 13:05:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACNy3NBboTz_e8z+T4xeK43Lmu-R+rQvGYLSyZU0Yt5nuoTH9A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e86ec32fb86bcaf79b444e560ebf95c77ebd963b.camel@henrimenke.de>


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On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 11:57, Henri Menke <henri@henrimenke.de> wrote:

> %D The default dimensions are quite old and will not change. The funny
> fractions
> %D were introduced when we went from fixed dimensions to relative ones.
> Since
> %D \CONTEXT\ is a dutch package, the dimensions are based on the metric
> system.
> The
> %D asymmetrical layout is kind of handy for short quick||and||dirty stapled
> %D documents.
>
>
> https://github.com/contextgarden/context-mirror/blob/343fdd99ef79884fca1f86b49c950e03939aeedf/tex/context/base/mkiv/page-lay.mkiv#L1373-L1377


So it's for backward compatibility then.
Thanks for the nice anecdote!

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-05 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-05 10:28 Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-05 10:56 ` Henri Menke
2020-11-05 12:05   ` Sylvain Hubert [this message]
2020-11-05 15:21 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2020-11-05 16:20   ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-05 20:58   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-11-05 21:41     ` Hans Hagen

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