Re: [NTG-context] Why is the textarea not centered by default?

2020-11-05 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11/5/2020 9:58 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 05.11.2020 um 16:21 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez : I’m not expert on typesetting, but I read somewhere (too long ago to be able to remember when) that printed papers should have wider outer margins to put your fingers on it. In classical book

Re: [NTG-context] Why is the textarea not centered by default?

2020-11-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
> Am 05.11.2020 um 16:21 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez : > > I’m not expert on typesetting, but I read somewhere (too long ago to be > able to remember when) that printed papers should have wider outer > margins to put your fingers on it. In classical book layout, the two inner margins (2*backspace)

Re: [NTG-context] Why is the textarea not centered by default?

2020-11-05 Thread Sylvain Hubert
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 16:25, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > Hi Sylvain, > > you can avoid this with the following code (althought the "height" > option is probably not needed): > > \setuplayout[width=middle, height=middle] > Thanks Pablo. This happens to be what I've been looking for for a long

Re: [NTG-context] Why is the textarea not centered by default?

2020-11-05 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 11/5/20 11:28 AM, Sylvain Hubert wrote: > Dear List, > >     \starttext \showframe \showsetups \stoptext > > This minimal example without further configuration shows that the > default value for backspace, textwidth and paperwidth are 2.5cm, 15cm, > 21cm resp., which means that the textarea is

Re: [NTG-context] Why is the textarea not centered by default?

2020-11-05 Thread Henri Menke
On Thu, 2020-11-05 at 11:28 +0100, Sylvain Hubert wrote: > Dear List, > > \starttext \showframe \showsetups \stoptext > > This minimal example without further configuration shows that the default > value for backspace, textwidth and paperwidth are 2.5cm, 15cm, 21cm resp., > which means that

Re: [NTG-context] Why is the textarea not centered by default?

2020-11-05 Thread Sylvain Hubert
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 11:57, Henri Menke wrote: > %D The default dimensions are quite old and will not change. The funny > fractions > %D were introduced when we went from fixed dimensions to relative ones. > Since > %D \CONTEXT\ is a dutch package, the dimensions are based on the metric >

[NTG-context] Why is the textarea not centered by default?

2020-11-05 Thread Sylvain Hubert
Dear List, \starttext \showframe \showsetups \stoptext This minimal example without further configuration shows that the default value for backspace, textwidth and paperwidth are 2.5cm, 15cm, 21cm resp., which means that the textarea is horizontally 0.5cm off the center by default, and one