Re: \definelayout

[Peter Park Nelson <peter.park.nelson@gmail.com>]

The example is not working correctly for me with the 23 Dec. beta. If
I set a larger footer size for the first page, that larger size is
carried over to all the rest of the document.

Here's my code:

\setuplayout[%
  width=middle,
  backspace=15mm,
  topspace=10mm,
  height=254mm,
  header=5mm,
  headerdistance=5mm,
  footer=5mm, % Normal footer size
  footerdistance=5mm,
  grid=tolerant]

\definelayout[first][% Larger footer on first page
  footer=15mm,
  footerdistance=5mm]


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Andreas Harder <aharder@uni-koblenz.de> wrote:
>
> On 13.12.2011, at 16:44, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 13.12.2011 um 16:26 schrieb Andreas Harder:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> would someone please enlighten me. What is the correct usage of \definelayout?
>>>
>>> \definelayout[default][width=middle,height=middle,header=0pt,footer=0pt]
>>> % \setuplayout[default] % needed?
>>> \definelayout[first]  [default][header=2cm]
>>> \definelayout[unknown][default]%[reset]
>>> % \definelayout[2]      [default]%[reset]
>>> \definelayout[last]   [default][footer=2cm]
>>>
>>> \starttext  \showframe % \checkcurrentlayout
>>> %% Variant A: fails with \default[unknown]
>>> first\page unknown=(2)\page \page unknown=(3)\page last
>>>
>>> %% Variant B: fails with \definelayout[2]
>>> % first\page unknown=(2)=last
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> By the way the output differs with the latest beta in comparison with the latest experimental.
>>
>> Hans changed part of the \setuplayout code in the last betas (there are more than you can see in the ctx suite).
>>
>> When context checks the layout (happens with \starttext and when it starts a new page) it test for the following defined layouts:
>>
>> • “<pagenumber>”
>> • “-<pagenumber>”
>> • “last” (is only used for the last page of the document)
>> • “first” (is only used for the first page of the document)
>> • “unknown”
>> • “current”
>> • “odd” and “even” (used for left and right pages)
>>
>> All entries in this list are reserved names but you can also define your own layout but in this case
>> you have to enable it with \setuplayout[<name>].
>>
>> One of the new features in MkIV is that layout parameters can be inherited, e.g. when
>> you define a layout with the name “one” {\definelayout[one][..,..=..,..]) and another one with
>> the name two (\definelayout[two][one][..,..=..,..]) this will take the values from one of there
>> are nothing set for a value from one and when there is also nothing set for one the global
>> values are used (\setuplayout[..,..=..,..]).
>
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> I modified the example (hopefully in a meaningful manner). I get the desired output with the old beta, but it still fails with todays beta.
>
> \setuplayout [width=middle,height=middle,header=0pt,footer=0pt]
> \definelayout[first]  [header=2cm]
> \definelayout[last]   [footer=2cm]
> \definelayout[current]
>
> \starttext  \showframe % \checkcurrentlayout
>  % \dorecurse{2}{test\page} % last is wrong
>  \dorecurse{5}{test\page} % page 2 and „last“ are wrong
> \stoptext
>
>
> Andreas
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