Hi Hans,
Thanks for the reply -- and sorry for the rather grumpy way in which I posed the question. The problem for me was this mysterious "width=middle", "height=middle" -- this is fairly undocumented at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout . There is a mention of "width=middle", but it's just followed by some code, most of which seems to be irrelevant ("if cutspace == 0pt then cutspace = backspace; end"), and there is no mention of "height=middle". I would be more than willing to document this myself, but what is it that "width=middle" actually *does*? And what does "middle" actually *mean* -- the middle of *what*? James On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 25-2-2010 5:39, James Fisher wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> >> I am trying to understand the terminology for the \definelayout and >> \setuplayout commands. >> Unfortunately the documentation at >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layoutdoesn't<http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layoutdoesn%27t>correspond >> to the actual >> >> output I get. >> Nor does the 'documentation' at http://getfo.org/context_xml/page3.html , >> which the first page recommends. >> More, the two pages seem pretty contradictory. >> >> Consider my situation: I'm trying to set up an A4 page with the following >> margins (I use the term margin to mean the space from the edge of the >> physical paper to the edge of the body text area): >> >> top: 2.97cm >> bottom: 2.97cm >> left: 2.1cm >> right: 2.1cm >> >> For the moment, I don't care at all about header and footer space, nor >> notes >> in the margins; I'm just trying to get the above margins. >> However, with all conceivable combinations of commands at both of those >> pages, I've been unable to set anything like this up. >> >> Based on the getfo.org page, I should be able to set up these left and >> right >> margins with: >> > > \setuplayout > [backspace=2.1cm, > cutspace=2.1cm, > width=middle, > topspace=2.97cm, > bottomspace=2.97cm, > height=middle] > > \showframe > > \starttext > > \input tufte > > \stoptext > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >
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