Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

23 Dec 2007

      On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:30:13 -0500
"Joel C. Salomon"  wrote:
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On Dec 21, 2007 4:08 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
 wrote:
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textwidth=288pt, textheight=432pt,
replace these two lines with
width=288pt and height=432pt
don't use textwidth and textheight in \setuplayout.
Actually, "width=288pt, textheight=432pt," gives me exactly the result
I wanted.  I'd just like to be able to set the distance between the
top of the paper and the top of the text area directly, as in
  header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, something=72pt
rather than what I'm currently using:
  header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, topspace=48pt, % 48 = 72 - (12+12)
Is this possible, and what is the something's name?
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leftmargindistance is only the distance between the textarea and the
left box for the left margin, the layout concept could be a little bit
confusing.
Ya think maybe? ;)
Thanks for the help,
--Joel
\setuplayout
  [marking=on,
   location=middle,
   width=288pt,
   height=432pt,
   header=12pt,
   headerdistance=12pt,
   topspace=\dimexpr72pt-\headerheight-\headerdistance\relax,
   footer=\headerheight,
   footerdistance=\headerdistance,
   %bottomspace=144pt, % calculated by ConTeXt
   leftmargindistance=12pt,
   leftmargin=24pt,
   backspace=48pt,
   rightmargindistance=\leftmargindistance,
   rightmargin=\leftmarginwidth]

You should also avoid to use set the headerdistance, the textheight and
the bottomdistances at the same time, try to set only two dimension and
let TeX calculate the third dimension itself.

Wolfgang