On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Peter I. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Am 2008-03-25 um 01:51 schrieb Joel C. Salomon: > > > > > > > In other words, you want large inner margins and small outer margins. > > > >> However, the standard behaviour seems to be the opposite. > > > > For very good reason. When a two-page spread is laid flat, it usually > > > > looks best if the outer margins are both approximately equal in width > > > > to the combined inner margins. The default layout takes that into > > > > account. > > > > > > > > While the binding of a book does "eat" some of the inner margin, it's > > > > probably less than you think (IIRC, from ¼ʺ to ½ʺ, depending on > > > > the > > > > binding method), and often the print shop can correct for that. (If > > > > you need to be exact, measure against a book bound where your book > > > > will be and in the same method.) > > > > > > It depends on the binding method. > > > > > > The traditional margin sizes are only good for thread-stitching. > > > If your book's bound threadless (perfect binding, Wire-O etc.) your > > > inner margins need to be bigger (not always bigger as the outer, but > > > at least bigger than the traditional measures). > > > > > > It's not only that the bookbinder mills away a few millimeters of the > > > page - you can't open a adhesive bound book as much as a thread- > > > stitched, so you need a wider gutter to be able to read the book > > > without destroying the binding. (Or in case of spiral binding the > > > holes for the wire need enough space.) > > > > > > And if you need to send your PDF print-ready to your printshop (maybe > > > books-on-demand maker), there's nobody else who will correct for that. > > > > > > Insofar the OP's question is well justified. > > > Even if he could have found the answer easily himself: > > > > > > Of course you can define your page layout at will, > > > see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout > > > > Well, the information here does not solv my problem completely. > > The thing is, that while I do want the inner margins to be larger than > > the outer, my description also implies that the odd numbered pages are > > right pages, which is sometimes a requirement for printed books. > > I have tried to define the margins following the Layout section of the > > manual, but I can't figure out how to change that the odd pages are > > assumed to be left pages. > > \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] > > \setuplayout > [backspace=4cm, > cutspace=2cm, > width=fit] > > %\setuplayout > % [backspace=4cm, > % width=15cm] > > \starttext > \dorecurse{100}{\input knuth\par} > \stoptext
Thanks Wolfgang, this works. -Peter ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
