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*?
James
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Hans Hagen
On 25-2-2010 5:39, James Fisher wrote:
Hi all.
I am trying to understand the terminology for the \definelayout and \setuplayout commands. Unfortunately the documentation at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layoutdoesn'thttp://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layoutdoesn%27tcorrespond to the actual
output I get. Nor does the 'documentation' at http://getfo.org/context_xml/page3.html , which the first page recommends. More, the two pages seem pretty contradictory.
Consider my situation: I'm trying to set up an A4 page with the following margins (I use the term margin to mean the space from the edge of the physical paper to the edge of the body text area):
top: 2.97cm bottom: 2.97cm left: 2.1cm right: 2.1cm
For the moment, I don't care at all about header and footer space, nor notes in the margins; I'm just trying to get the above margins. However, with all conceivable combinations of commands at both of those pages, I've been unable to set anything like this up.
Based on the getfo.org page, I should be able to set up these left and right margins with:
\setuplayout [backspace=2.1cm, cutspace=2.1cm, width=middle, topspace=2.97cm, bottomspace=2.97cm, height=middle]
\showframe
\starttext
\input tufte
\stoptext
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