From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/28993 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sanjoy Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Newbie questions Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:35:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151548526 22822 80.91.229.2 (29 Jun 2006 02:35:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:35:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 29 04:35:24 2006 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 ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvmNI-0005DS-EJ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:35:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8991289B; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:35:23 +0200 (CEST) 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 08453-08; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:35:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B8912896; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:35:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6517412896 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:35:18 +0200 (CEST) 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 08450-06 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:35:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk (mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk [131.111.48.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 48E1B12864 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:35:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.48.158] ident=mail) by mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvmN7-0006zl-7K; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:35:13 +0100 Original-Received: from sanjoy by skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1FvmN6-00085C-00; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:35:12 +0100 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:12:55 EDT." X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:28993 Archived-At: From: Thomas Moore > \setuppapersize[letter] You want \setuppapersize[letter][letter] otherwise you get letter sized pages imposed on A4 paper (not widely available in Pomona probably!) because the default value for the second argument is A4. You might get lucky and end up with letter pages anyway if you have the right defaults in dvips, but that's a bit fragile (and probably direct pdf output would be on A4 paper). In an earlier thread I'd asked that the default be whatever the first argument is, but that idea was rejected on the (reasonable) grounds that the change would break too many documents. -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.