On 9/14/24 19:08, Angel M Alganza wrote:

I wonder how I could reduce the left margin and increase the left one on the even pages.

Any pointers, please?

Thank you so much in advance. Ángel

You need to tell ConTeXt that you want to have a doublesided layout. This is achieved with \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided] You can (and should) read about it in the wiki: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Page_Layout#Defining_the_layout Best Thomas

Angel, I used a lot of impositioning in the past. If you want to have small white space at the outer edge, then do not use width=fit. Control the inner whitespace with backspace=… Then calculate the width of the textarea you want and set this value in width=... There is no need to use cutspace in your approach. Willi

On 14 Sep 2024, at 19:08, Angel M Alganza wrote:

Hello:

I'm composing an A5 booklet printed on an A4 paper using the 2UP imposition schema. I believe, in such case, margins should be controlled using 'backspace' and 'cutspace' options of the \setuplayout command, but I'm afraid I don't quite understand how to use those properl. I want to make the 'external' margin (right on odd pages and left on even pages) as small as possible, and the 'internal' margin larger, so that I can hole punch the booklet.

I believe, in such case, margins should be controlled using 'backspace' and 'cutspace' options of the \setuplayout command, but I'm afraid I don't quite understand how to use those properly. Here's a minimal example:

\setuppapersize[A5][A4] \setuparranging[2UP,rotated] \setuplayout [topspace=13pt, backspace=30pt, cutspace=-20pt, width=fit, height=fit, header=0pt, footer=0pt] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \setupbodyfont[small] \starttext \dorecurse{20}{\input tufte \vskip 1em} \stoptext

I wonder how I could reduce the left margin and increase the left one on the even pages.

Any pointers, please?

Thank you so much in advance. Ángel ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

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