Dear Hraban
Thanks - and it's reassuring to see that I'm not the only one looking
around for info - though on the way I'm finding much that will be of great
interest and use.
I've eliminated some of these options and have got all of my cropmarks now
- though I have to lie to ConTexT about the vertical space between
them, curiously (I have to say the paper height is 214mm in order to get
the cropmarks printing at 216mm). Never mind - I'm happy if it works!
Best wishes
John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні!
* 🇺🇦*
On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 at 14:56, Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 18.06.25 um 15:16 schrieb John Was:
Hello Hraban
I have no doubt been feeding in erroneous information in the layout, and not giving ConTexT what it really needs (and in fact all I really require is typeset page 24 picas wide, 40 picas deep, with a headline 12 point above the top line of text). At any rate, here is what I have so far (the width of 627points is supposed to account for margin and edge areas, and the height of 522 points is experimental - actually not enough as the lower crop marks come into the text area):
\definepapersize[OUPoctavo][width=627pt, height=522pt]%offset=100pt?
\setuppapersize[OUPoctavo][A4] % paper size, printed on A4
\definelayout[GHIL] [edge=48pt, edgedistance=6pt, margin=72pt, margindistance=6pt, topspace=48pt, header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, height=40pc, width=24pc, footerdistance=6pt, footer=12pt, bottomdistance=12pt, bottom=36pt, location=middle, marking=on, horoffset=60pt, veroffset=0pt, paper=OUPoctavo, cutspace=0pt] \setuplayout[GHIL]
These are far too many settings, that usually makes no sense and I doubt you need all of them. At least horoffset and veroffset disturb the page placement on the sheet.
There are instructions how to setup a layout properly somewhere in the wiki, but since it was restructured, I can’t find anything any more.
Hraban
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