That makes sense.
The main thing confusing me on contextgarden is:
if cutspace == 0pt then
cutspace = backspace
end
Which I would guess is meant to allow you to just specify backspace if you
want symmetrical margins; but what if we want a 0pt cutspace?
A minor other thing confusing me is the terminology; mainly 'cut' and
'back'. Are these ConTeXt-specific terms or are they found elsewhere?
'Back' would make more sense to me as 'binding' or 'spine', and the edge
referred to as 'cut' is referred to in
Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book#Book_manufacturing_in_the_modern_worldas
the 'fore-edge'.
James
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Hans Hagen
On 25-2-2010 21:17, James Fisher wrote:
Hi Hans,
Thanks for the reply -- and sorry for the rather grumpy way in which I posed the question. The problem for me was this mysterious "width=middle", "height=middle" -- this is fairly undocumented at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout . There is a mention of "width=middle", but it's just followed by some code, most of which seems to be irrelevant ("if cutspace == 0pt then cutspace = backspace; end"), and there is no mention of "height=middle". I would be more than willing to document this myself, but what is it that "width=middle" actually *does*? And what does "middle" actually *mean* -- the middle of *what*?
just the space between back- and cutspace
(there's also fit, which takes edges into account as they play a role in interactive documents)
Hans
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