Pawel Urbanski via ntg-context schrieb am 21.05.2023 um 13:56:
Dear Friends,
I played wih hte setup and read the posts on the list. Apparently the mechanism for setting different margins can be confusing at times. At least, it is for a beginner.
I want to create 2 versions of my book:
Version 1: Goes to printing with different inner and outer margins due to binding and so on,
Version 2: Can be downloaded and the left and right margins are equal size.
I want ot keep the 6x9 size of a page, which is: 432x648pt. The sum of margins in both cases is 120pt. It leaves 312pt for the text content.
When I do hte following:
\setuplayout[
alternative=doublesided, width=fit, height=fit,
leftmargin=60pt, leftmargin=60pt, ...]
The makeup width and text width is calculated as 472pt and the margin appears to be set just on one side.
I set both cutspace and backspace to 0pt. I assumed that either value is a particular area of the page.
Has any one of you handled such a case? I'll be very glad to get some directions.
I can create a simple document with modes or documents to illustrate my case if needed...
The example below sets the correct margins for the download version. You use the backspace key to set the value for the inner/left margin and the width key for the textwidth. \definepapersize [pawel] [width=432pt,height=648pt] \setuppapersize [pawel] \setuplayout [backspace=60pt, width=312pt] \starttext \showlayout \stoptext Wolfgang