Re: Grid typesetting

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 30.10.2010 um 21:42 schrieb Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk:

> On 10/23/2010 06:18 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> \setuplayout[grid=yes]
>> %\showgrid
>> \starttext
>> \title{Example texts}
>> \subject{Knuth}
>> \input knuth
>> \subject{Tufte}
>> \input tufte
>> \stoptext
> 
> Thank you very much. It worked.
> 
> This puzzled me a lot, as seemingly the same setup refused to work in my
> document. Then I started to delete other preamble content step by step,
> and the grid still didn't work after I removed all of it. Then I found
> out that the "grid" option was not being read at all, because there was
> a space character before the comma. My setuplayout looked like that:
> \setuplayout[%%
> 	width=105mm ,%%
> 	height=162mm ,%%
> 	backspace=20mm ,%%
> 	topspace=18mm ,%%
> 	header=0pt ,%%
> 	footerdistance=5mm ,%%
> 	footer=5mm ,%%
> 	marking=off ,%%
> 	location=doublesided,%%
> 	veroffset=5mm ,%%
> 	grid=yes ,%% <<space character ruins the option
> 	margin=15mm ,%%
> 	%top=5mm ,%%
> ]%%
> 
> When can I use a space like that, and I can't? I found out that also
> some other options can't be followed by a space. Why is that?

Space are only allowed before keys, in all other places a space is either a space in the key or the value itself, in your case it works with the dimensions because they are passed to normal tex dimension but never rely on this.

Wolfgang


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