On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Robert Blackstone
<blackstone.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ---
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
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