Hi all,

This is a reaction to a post in another thread, setupinmargin failing, but it does not seem to directly concern the problem raised there (by Hans van der Meer). So I raise it as a new problem.

I tried the code supplied by Luigi Scarso in ntg-context Digest, Vol 69, Issue 127, Message 1:

\showframe \setuppapersize[A4][A3] \setuplayout[location=middle] \setupinmargin[left][align=left,foregroundcolor=red] \setupinmargin[right][align=right,foregroundcolor=blue] \starttext ABC\inright{\framed[width=10mm,height=5mm,foregroundcolor=red]{R1 }} %% override blue, but not for frame \inleft{\tfx A small note in this margin. But we need to setup something before \ldots } \stoptext

A few things in the result surprise, and worry, me: 1,  the actual text page does not coincide with (what I assume is) the reserved space on the A3-folio  (that is, it partially falls outside the area with the green border).  Thus in particular the left margin with its margin text falls partly outside this area (which is also clear when one uses \setuppapersize[A4][A4] in the preamble. ) The margin itself is, of course, wide enough to contain the margin note. Why is this and how can it be avoided? In fact this usually happens to me: the margins partly fall outside the page. Very annoying. 2,  \setupinmargin[left][align=left,.. ] actually right-aligns the left margin note and vice versa. To left-align it I had to give \setupinmargin[right]. Seems odd to me. Is this normal? ....yes . I have these line \setuppapersize[A4][A3] \setuplayout[location=middle] right to show that default layout --- and it's the default layout from 10years at least ---

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Robert Blackstone wrote: perhaps is not adeguate to your needs; you need to setup* something. align (and ragged align) have always confused me, and I suspect that here aligns are corrects. -- luigi