On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:09:26 -0500
"Joel C. Salomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2007 2:01 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What do you mean by the rectangle around the text area.
>
> Here's the project I'm compiling (as it currently stands), condensed
> into a single file:
>
> \definepapersize[sixbynine][width=6in,height=9in]
> \setuppapersize[sixbynine][letter]
> \setuplayout
> [marking=on, location=middle,
> textwidth=288pt, textheight=432pt,
replace these two lines with
width=288pt and height=432pt
don't use textwidth and textheight in \setuplayout.
> header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, topspace=72pt,
> footer=12pt, footerdistance=12pt, bottomspace=144pt,
> leftmargindistance=12pt, leftmargin=24pt, backspace=48pt,
> rightmargindistance=12pt, rightmargin=24pt]
> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
> \showframe
> \starttext
> \title{Preface}
> A few paragraphs of {\em Lorem ipsum} text.
> \stoptext
>
> The center rectangle, surrounding the text area, seems to have its
> left & right margins some distance from the actual text. How do I set
> that distance, and why is it different from the leftmargindistance?
leftmargindistance is only the distance between the textarea and the
left box for the left margin, the layout concept could be a little bit
confusing.
Wolfgang
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