On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2008-03-25 um 01:51 schrieb Joel C. Salomon: > > > In other words, you want large inner margins and small outer margins. > >> However, the standard behaviour seems to be the opposite. > > For very good reason. When a two-page spread is laid flat, it usually > > looks best if the outer margins are both approximately equal in width > > to the combined inner margins. The default layout takes that into > > account. > > > > While the binding of a book does "eat" some of the inner margin, it's > > probably less than you think (IIRC, from ¼ʺ to ½ʺ, depending on > > the > > binding method), and often the print shop can correct for that. (If > > you need to be exact, measure against a book bound where your book > > will be and in the same method.) > > It depends on the binding method. > > The traditional margin sizes are only good for thread-stitching. > If your book's bound threadless (perfect binding, Wire-O etc.) your > inner margins need to be bigger (not always bigger as the outer, but > at least bigger than the traditional measures). > > It's not only that the bookbinder mills away a few millimeters of the > page - you can't open a adhesive bound book as much as a thread- > stitched, so you need a wider gutter to be able to read the book > without destroying the binding. (Or in case of spiral binding the > holes for the wire need enough space.) > > And if you need to send your PDF print-ready to your printshop (maybe > books-on-demand maker), there's nobody else who will correct for that. > > Insofar the OP's question is well justified. > Even if he could have found the answer easily himself: > > Of course you can define your page layout at will, > see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout
Well, the information here does not solv my problem completely. The thing is, that while I do want the inner margins to be larger than the outer, my description also implies that the odd numbered pages are right pages, which is sometimes a requirement for printed books. I have tried to define the margins following the Layout section of the manual, but I can't figure out how to change that the odd pages are assumed to be left pages. -Peter ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
