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From: Patrick Gundlach <pg@levana.de>
Subject: Re: \setuplayout parameters
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 18:53:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wucrgmir.fsf@levana.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308071200.24945.john@wexfordpress.com> (John Culleton's message of "Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:00:24 -0400")

Hello John,

John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> writes:

> I want to set up a book 5.5 x 8.5 with .5in margins left and right. 
> During the development process I want to be able to print it on
> US standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper.
>
> Here is my current prologue (I have tried several):
> \setupoutput[pdftex]
> \definepapersize[bok][width=5.5in,height=8.5in]
> \setuppapersize[bok][letter]
> \setuplayout[marginwidth=.5in,location=middle]
> \showframe

The problem here is that you need to play with backspace, leftmargin
and leftmargindistance. To verify, use the layout[1] module  and add

\usemodule [layout]
\ShowLayout[units=in]

in your document. The default in ConTeXt is that 
leftmargin + leftmargindistance > backspace, so the layout gets
"shifted" a bit. It is not really a shift, because the backspace
parameter sets the left edge of the text.

[1] see http://levana.de/context/

Patrick

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-02 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-07 16:00 John Culleton
2003-08-07 22:45 ` Hans Hagen
2003-09-02 16:53 ` Patrick Gundlach [this message]

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