[NTG-context] Re: Lost in the murky detail of designing a page layout

6 Feb 2003

      Guy Worthington  writes:

Hello again,
...
If you look at the output, you'll see, at the bottom of the main text
area, whitespace.  The whitespace exists because there isn't enough
room to fit another line in the text area.  My question is, can I
specify an integer number of lines in the text area, and have the
excess whitespace distributed evenly in my \headerdistance and
\footerdistance.
%output=pdf

\setuppapersize[A4][A4]
\setupencoding[default=texnansi]    
\setupbodyfont[cmr,14.4pt]

\def\GoldenRatio{1.61803}    
\setbox0\hbox{\dorecurse{26}{\character\recurselevel}}

\setuplayout[width=2.5\wd0,
             header=\lineheight,
             footer=\lineheight,
             height=\GoldenRatio\makeupwidth,
             footerdistance=\dimexpr(
             (\makeupheight-37\lineheight-\headerheight-\footerheight) /2),
% does not work, why?
%             headerdistance=\footerdistance,
             headerdistance=\dimexpr(
             (\makeupheight-37\lineheight-\headerheight-\footerheight) /2),
             backspace=\dimexpr(\makeupwidth/7),
             topspace=\dimexpr(\makeupwidth/7)]
\showlayout
\showframe 
\starttext
 \startlinenumbering
    \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth}
  \stoplinenumbering

\stoptext

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But: I have two questions:

why does \headerdistance=\footerdistance not work the way I'd expect
(making 'em equal)?

Why is there a difference between knuth.tex and tufte.tex in the
example (try \input tufte instead of \input knuth).

Patrick

[NTG-context] Re: Lost in the murky detail of designing a page layout

Patrick Gundlach