Hello John,
John Culleton
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