On 2012-06-05 Marco wrote:

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2. I'd like to get crop marks, in this case short (5mm) lines showing where to cut the sheet, located near the borders, but *within* the printable area.

Since eight A6 pages exactly fit on one A3 page the crop marks can only be *inside* the printable area. That means with marking=on you'll see three marks in the middle of the page. When you also want them to show up at the page borders, you have to fire up MetaPost.

Or you can draw frames around the pages. \setuppapersize [A6,landscape] [A3] \setuppagenumbering [location=] \setupbodyfont [sans, 58pt] \setuplayout [nx=2, ny=4] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=cropmarks, setups=cropmarks] \definelayer [cropmarks] [state=repeat] \startsetups cropmarks \doifoddpageelse{}{% \setlayerframed [cropmarks] [frame=off, bottomframe=on, leftframe=on, width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight]{}} \stopsetups \starttext \dorecurse{4} {\null\vfill\centerline\recurselevel\vfill\null\page} \stoptext I don't know why the frame is missing on the first page. Marco

Am 05.06.2012 um 23:19 schrieb Marco:

On 2012-06-05 Marco wrote:

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\startsetups cropmarks \doifoddpageelse{}{% \setlayerframed [cropmarks] [frame=off, bottomframe=on, leftframe=on, width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight]{}} \stopsetups

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I don't know why the frame is missing on the first page.

\startsetups cropmarks \setlayerframed [cropmarks] [frame=off, bottomframe=on, leftframe=on, width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight]{} \stopsetups

There is no need for layers because you can use \framed in a overlay \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=cropmarks] \defineoverlay [cropmarks] [{\framed[frame=off,bottomframe=on,leftframe=on,width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight]{}}] and even this is overkill because you can just enable the rules of the page frame \setupbackgrounds [page] [leftframe=on,bottomframe=on] Wolfgang

Am 05.06.2012 um 23:36 schrieb Marco:

On 2012-06-05 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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There is no need for layers because you can use \framed in a overlay

Sure I can do that. But what's the advantage of using an overlay?

In this case performance.

I find layers to be more flexible.

1. When you define a layer a overlay with the same name is created because multiple layers are combined in an overlay. 2. You can combine a layer and an overlay to avoid the setups method (search for \tightlayer). Wolfgang