[NTG-context] Page with minimum margins, maximum text width/textheight

2012-01-13 Thread Gerben Wierda
How do I create a page with maximum text width, text height? I tried using \setuplayout with stuff like [textwidth=\pagewidth-1cm], but nothing happens. I need empty pages with minimum margins, just to be able to put other PDF's in that space. G

Re: [NTG-context] Page with minimum margins, maximum text width/textheight

2012-01-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Gerben Wierda wrote: How do I create a page with maximum text width, text height? I tried using \setuplayout with stuff like [textwidth=\pagewidth-1cm], but nothing happens. I need empty pages with minimum margins, just to be able to put other PDF's in that space.

Re: [NTG-context] Page with minimum margins, maximum text width/textheight

2012-01-13 Thread Gerben Wierda
I was already trying a lot of stuff with \setuplayout. I've found mentioning somewhere that you can adapt the backspace, topspace, height and width.So it must be something like \setuplayout[backspace=1cm,topspace=1cm,height=\paperheight,width=\paperwidth] but I forgot how to do something like

Re: [NTG-context] Page with minimum margins, maximum text width/textheight

2012-01-13 Thread Philipp Gesang
Hi Gerben! On 2012-01-14 00:43, Gerben Wierda wrote: but I forgot how to do something like width=\paperwidth-2cm (not like that obviously, but I have forgotten how to do simple addition and subtraction with dimensions in TeX) See TeXbook p. 118f. So, how do I set a margin of 1cm all around

Re: [NTG-context] Page with minimum margins, maximum text width/textheight

2012-01-13 Thread Gerben Wierda
Thanks. My external figures are PDFs with all weird sizes, the smaller ones, I want to print on portrait A4 (if they are more landscape than portrait, they will be rotated) and the larger ones on landscape A3 (again, rotated when they are more portrait than landscape). Distorting is not