That makes sense. The main thing confusing me on contextgarden is:
if cutspace == 0pt then cutspace = backspace end Which I would guess is meant to allow you to just specify backspace if you want symmetrical margins; but what if we want a 0pt cutspace? A minor other thing confusing me is the terminology; mainly 'cut' and 'back'. Are these ConTeXt-specific terms or are they found elsewhere? 'Back' would make more sense to me as 'binding' or 'spine', and the edge referred to as 'cut' is referred to in Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book#Book_manufacturing_in_the_modern_world>as the 'fore-edge'. James On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 25-2-2010 21:17, James Fisher wrote: > >> 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*? >> > > just the space between back- and cutspace > > (there's also fit, which takes edges into account as they play a role in > interactive documents) > > Hans > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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