From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: Yatskovsky <yatskovsky@gmail.com>,
mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: booklet set up
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 18:14:11 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.0.9999.0712061812570.5977@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <858083424.20071207001041@gmail.com>
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
> 2) I was always scared by explanation of \showlayout on texshow:
>
> "Horizontal: (if singleside then outside is at right and inside is at left)
> ===========
> width => width of text area
> middle: automatic calculation consider A) params
> fit: automatic calculation consider A)+B) params
> dimension: cutspace should be 0 and is calculated according to backspace
>
> A) params: (\paperwidth=\backspace+\makeupwidth+\cutspace)
> backspace => width of inner margin
> cutspace => width of outer margin (if 0 then = backspace!)
> "...
>
> and so on. It looks like a program, not manual, and I never understood it, despite it explains very important concept, missed on Wiki -- 'fit' and 'middle' options. Can someone throw a light on these?
There are some nice examples in the context manual. Different layout
settings and how the typeset page looks. Also try the t-layout package by
Patrick. It helped me a lot to see how the layout will look like.
Aditya
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2007-12-06 22:10 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-12-06 23:14 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2007-12-07 10:53 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-12-07 15:33 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-12-07 11:29 ` Willi Egger
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