From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: typearea
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 12:33:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2f89075-09ff-1002-d240-afa08b88b72b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4689a9a5-c581-4777-875b-6357d93ce4dc@fiee.net>
Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 29.10.2023 um 12:13:
> Am 29.10.23 um 11:37 schrieb Thomas Meyer:
>> Hi,
>> I'm new to ConTeXt and try to use the module typearea
>> (https://modules.contextgarden.net/cgi-bin/module.cgi/action=find/name=typearea).
>>
>> But the example doesn't work:
>
> The module is from 2008, i.e. MkII. You can’t expect it to work with
> MkIV/LMTX.
> Just define your layout yourself.
You can use the \averagecharwidth length to set the text width to a certain
number of characters per line but for now only only a few languages
are supported.
\mainlanguage[en]
\setuplayout
[width=60\averagecharwidth]
\starttext
\samplefile{lorem}
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-29 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-29 10:37 [NTG-context] typearea Thomas Meyer
2023-10-29 11:07 ` [NTG-context] typearea Thomas Meyer
2023-10-29 11:13 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2023-10-29 11:33 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2023-11-01 21:47 ` Aditya Mahajan
2023-11-02 8:00 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2023-11-02 8:11 ` Hans Hagen
2023-11-06 13:22 ` Thomas Meyer
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