Am 2007-05-03 um 21:19 schrieb Willi Egger: > Consider A4 which is portrait because of the grain direction > (Laufrichtung) in the height. Otherwise A3 is two A4 and hence the > grain direction is in the shorthand. - Generally speaking the > graindirection is in the direction of the longer edge in all A- > foomats with even numbers, including A0. - Looking in this way at RA3 > and SRA3 I would expect that the graindirection is also on the short > side. Therefore The definition shoud be width=305 and height=430 mm > and width=320 and height=450mm respectively. > > So Luigi you learned determination of the grain direction in Epen, > please look this up in your two blocks! > > Kind regards Willi, the bookbinder ;-)
As a bookbinder you should know that you can get paper in both grain directions (even if one's much more usual). ISO definitions of paper sizes are always portrait. see also http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PaperSizes I never heard of RA/SRA sizes before (doubt that they're standardized), but feel free to add them as soon as the wiki has moved. Greetlings: Hraban, the printing engineer --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
