Am 30.10.2010 um 21:42 schrieb Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk:
> On 10/23/2010 06:18 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> \setuplayout[grid=yes]
>> %\showgrid
>> \starttext
>> \title{Example texts}
>> \subject{Knuth}
>> \input knuth
>> \subject{Tufte}
>> \input tufte
>> \stoptext
>
> Thank you very much. It worked.
>
> This puzzled me a lot, as seemingly the same setup refused to work in my
> document. Then I started to delete other preamble content step by step,
> and the grid still didn't work after I removed all of it. Then I found
> out that the "grid" option was not being read at all, because there was
> a space character before the comma. My setuplayout looked like that:
> \setuplayout[%%
> width=105mm ,%%
> height=162mm ,%%
> backspace=20mm ,%%
> topspace=18mm ,%%
> header=0pt ,%%
> footerdistance=5mm ,%%
> footer=5mm ,%%
> marking=off ,%%
> location=doublesided,%%
> veroffset=5mm ,%%
> grid=yes ,%% <<space character ruins the option
> margin=15mm ,%%
> %top=5mm ,%%
> ]%%
>
> When can I use a space like that, and I can't? I found out that also
> some other options can't be followed by a space. Why is that?
Space are only allowed before keys, in all other places a space is either a
space in the key or the value itself, in your case it works with the dimensions
because they are passed to normal tex dimension but never rely on this.
Wolfgang
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