[NTG-context] Confused again :-)

2012-06-07 Thread Bill Meahan
I'm getting a handle on page layout and headings but there are some things I haven't figured out. 1) How does one specify they want the outer margin to be a different size than the inner margin? Outer, of course, is the right margin on a right-hand (odd) page and the left margin on a

Re: [NTG-context] Confused again :-)

2012-06-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 07.06.2012 um 21:15 schrieb Bill Meahan: I'm getting a handle on page layout and headings but there are some things I haven't figured out. 1) How does one specify they want the outer margin to be a different size than the inner margin? Outer, of course, is the right margin on a

Re: [NTG-context] Confused again :-)

2012-06-07 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jun 7, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Bill Meahan wrote: I'm getting a handle on page layout and headings but there are some things I haven't figured out. 1) How does one specify they want the outer margin to be a different size than the inner margin? Outer, of course, is the right margin on a

Re: [NTG-context] Confused again :-)

2012-06-07 Thread Bill Meahan
On 06/07/2012 15:29, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Can you be more concrete. First page of a chapter should have the chapter name in a fancy font at the top of the main text area. Perhaps with rules above and/or below. In the framed margin would be the word Chapter (in smallcaps at a _slightly_

Re: [NTG-context] Confused again :-)

2012-06-07 Thread Bill Meahan
On 06/07/2012 15:34, Rogers, Michael K wrote: 1) You might want to look through Ch. 3 in the manual. The dimension called backspace is sometimes described as the space between the spine and the text, and sometimes as the space to the left. But the manual shows various ways to set up

Re: [NTG-context] Confused again :-)

2012-06-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 07.06.2012 um 21:55 schrieb Bill Meahan: On 06/07/2012 15:29, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Can you be more concrete. First page of a chapter should have the chapter name in a fancy font at the top of the main text area. Perhaps with rules above and/or below. In the framed margin would be

Re: [NTG-context] Confused again :-)

2012-06-07 Thread Bill Meahan
On 06/07/2012 16:32, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: snip The width of the text area will be typefitted to the body font size using the table in Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style. Indeed, this page

Re: [NTG-context] Confused again :-)

2012-06-07 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 07 Jun 2012, Bill Meahan wrote: Gosh this list is nice! Reminds me of the good old days when we used UUCP, bang-paths and C-News to communicate (or the early ARPANET days): polite, expert, very willing to share knowledge c. Wolfgang is ConTeXt's natural language interface. In fact,