Thanks Patrick for the example. It's a start (the A4 typesetting area
looks good). Now I need to flesh out some of the details. If I
explain how I'd go about it using Hans diagram on pg 30 of the english
ConTeXt manual, maybe I'll make myself clearer (well at least clearer
than my initial correspondence).
1) define A4 typesetting area
width = 2.5 times the length of the lowercase alphabet in
the default font -- lucida-bright at 12pt
height = golden-ratio times width
this is the inclusive area header + text + footer.
2) If you look at the figure on page 30 of the english ConTeXt manual,
Hans has drawn a hatched area called "footer".
I'd like the distance between the baseline of the last line of text
in the main text area and the baseline of the footer to be equal to
two times the leading of the main font in white space plus the
leading of the footer line:
footer = 2 * \baselineskip whitespace + \baselineskip footer text
3) If you look at the hatched area on page 30 called "header"
I'd like the distance from the top of the header to baseline of line
1 of the main text to be the twice the leading of the main font in
white space plus the height of a one strutbox.
header = \baseline header text + 2 * \baselineskip whitespace +
\ht\strutbox main text
4) If you look at the area on page 30 called text, I'd like the text
area to 41 lines.
height = 41 \baselineskip
5) I'd like any whitespace needed to compensate for underfull \vbox
messages to be divided equally between the whitespace separating
the header and the text and the footer and the text.
5) I'd like backspace and topspace margins to be equal to the width
divided by seven.
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