Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

2007-12-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:30:13 -0500
Joel C. Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Dec 21, 2007 4:08 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 textwidth=288pt, textheight=432pt,
 
  replace these two lines with
 
  width=288pt and height=432pt
 
  don't use textwidth and textheight in \setuplayout.
 
 Actually, width=288pt, textheight=432pt, gives me exactly the result
 I wanted.  I'd just like to be able to set the distance between the
 top of the paper and the top of the text area directly, as in
   header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, something=72pt
 rather than what I'm currently using:
   header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, topspace=48pt, % 48 = 72 - (12+12)
 Is this possible, and what is the something's name?
 
  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.
 
 Ya think maybe? ;)
 
 Thanks for the help,
 --Joel

\setuplayout
  [marking=on,
   location=middle,
   width=288pt,
   height=432pt,
   header=12pt,
   headerdistance=12pt,
   topspace=\dimexpr72pt-\headerheight-\headerdistance\relax,
   footer=\headerheight,
   footerdistance=\headerdistance,
   %bottomspace=144pt, % calculated by ConTeXt
   leftmargindistance=12pt,
   leftmargin=24pt,
   backspace=48pt,
   rightmargindistance=\leftmargindistance,
   rightmargin=\leftmarginwidth]

You should also avoid to use set the headerdistance, the textheight and
the bottomdistances at the same time, try to set only two dimension and
let TeX calculate the third dimension itself.

Wolfgang
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Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

2007-12-22 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Dec 21, 2007 4:08 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
textwidth=288pt, textheight=432pt,

 replace these two lines with

 width=288pt and height=432pt

 don't use textwidth and textheight in \setuplayout.

Actually, width=288pt, textheight=432pt, gives me exactly the result
I wanted.  I'd just like to be able to set the distance between the
top of the paper and the top of the text area directly, as in
header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, something=72pt
rather than what I'm currently using:
header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, topspace=48pt, % 48 = 72 - (12+12)
Is this possible, and what is the something's name?

 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.

Ya think maybe? ;)

Thanks for the help,
--Joel
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Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

2007-12-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Joel C. Salomon wrote:

 Does a project with a single product really require the full hierarchy?
 Is there a dummy layout I can put into the environment file to test the 
 set-up?

no, you could stick to a product but maybe later on you want for 
instance a screen version which then can make another product

 \startenvironment env_firefly
 \definepapersize[sixbynine][width=6in,height=9in]
 \setuppapersize[sixbynine][sixbynine]
 \setuplayout[...
   ...]
 \stopenvironment
 
 Do I need to define  name the paper size, or is putting it in the
 \setuplayout sufficient?

looks ok to me; it depends on your papersize

also try:

\setuppapersize[sixbynine][oversized]
\setuplayout[marking=on]

 What are the offset  scale in the paper size?

special purpose, tweaking, seldom needed

 I want to have 6″×9″ trim, inner margin of 48pt, outer margin 96pt,
 top margin 72pt, bottom margin 144pt for starters.  Headers and
 footers, when they exist, are allocated 12 points height and are 12pt
 away from the text. (See the linked-to example.)
 
 I have read several of the manuals, I'm just having trouble putting it
 all together.  Also, I'm not looking for a recipe but guides on
 developing the layout myself so I can understand it.

use \showframe

stat with defining headers and footers and then set topspace and 
backspace dimensions

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Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

2007-12-21 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:04:57 -0500
Joel C. Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm trying a fairly ambitious project to teach myself practical
 ConTeXt -- typesetting a book I'm writing.  As per
 http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Project_structure, I've created files
 for the project, environment, product, and component.  The component
 file (preface.tex) is the only one with (dummy) content right now.

 Side questions:
 Does a project with a single product really require the full hierarchy?
 Is there a dummy layout I can put into the environment file to test the 
 set-up?

you can omit the project file, I use it myself only for documents where
I use the same layout for more than one product/Dokument.

 Now I want to set up the layout.  An example of what I'm trying to
 achieve is at http://typophile.com/files/Layout.pdf, currently done
 in OpenOffice.  I'm not yet asking about fonts; I just want to put the
 text in the correct places.  It doesn't seem that 6×9 (inches) is a
 built-in size, so my environment file (env_firefly.tex) needs to look
 something like:

How to use th Gentium fonts with ConTeXt have been asked not so long
ago, I could also send you a typescript file to use the DejaVo fonts
with XeTeX but I had a few problems to use them with LuaTeX in the last
time.

 \startenvironment env_firefly
 \definepapersize[sixbynine][
   width=6in,height=9in,
   offset=???,scale=???]
 \setuppapersize[sixbynine][sixbynine]
 \setuplayout[...
   ...]
 \stopenvironment

 Do I need to define  name the paper size, or is putting it in the
 \setuplayout sufficient?
 What are the offset  scale in the paper size?

You need \definepapersize to set the width and height of your page.

I never the used the offset and scale keys for \definepapersize but the
offset key sems to change the with and height of the papersize by the
given value, positive value means reduce the size by this dimension.

Don't know what the scale key is for, I tried to use it but got no
change in the output.

\setuplayout is meant to set the margin on your page.

You forgot \setuppagenumbering[location=doublesided] in your
environment to get a doublesided document.

 I want to have 6″×9″ trim, inner margin of 48pt, outer margin 96pt,
 top margin 72pt, bottom margin 144pt for starters.  Headers and
 footers, when they exist, are allocated 12 points height and are 12pt
 away from the text. (See the linked-to example.)

\setuplayout
  [backspace=48pt,
   cutspace=96pt,
   width=fit,
   height=fit,
   %topspace=72pt,
   topspace=60pt,
   header=12pt,
   headerdistance=12pt,
   %bottomspace=144pt,
   bottomspace=132pt,
   footer=12pt,
   footerdistance=12pt]

 I have read several of the manuals, I'm just having trouble putting it
 all together.  Also, I'm not looking for a recipe but guides on
 developing the layout myself so I can understand it.

You could try to read the example layouts on the wiki.

Wolfgang
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Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

2007-12-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Joel C. Salomon wrote:
 On Dec 21, 2007 3:19 AM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 \setuppapersize[sixbynine][oversized]
 \setuplayout[marking=on]
 
 Cool!  Is there a way to center the 6″×9″ page on 8½″×11″ paper?  I've tried
   \setuppapersize[sixbynine][letter]
 but that puts the page in the upper-left corner.  Right now I'm using
   \setuppapersize[sixbynine][sixbynine]
 and having Acrobat Reader center this on the printed page.  (Which
 might well be the best way to do this.)

location=middle (in setuplayout)


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Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

2007-12-21 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Dec 21, 2007 3:19 AM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 \setuppapersize[sixbynine][oversized]
 \setuplayout[marking=on]

Cool!  Is there a way to center the 6″×9″ page on 8½″×11″ paper?  I've tried
\setuppapersize[sixbynine][letter]
but that puts the page in the upper-left corner.  Right now I'm using
\setuppapersize[sixbynine][sixbynine]
and having Acrobat Reader center this on the printed page.  (Which
might well be the best way to do this.)

 use \showframe

 stat with defining headers and footers and then set topspace and
 backspace dimensions

Thanks; now I can see what I'm doing.

On Dec 21, 2007 3:55 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 you can omit the project file, I use it myself only for documents where
 I use the same layout for more than one product/Dokument.

I assume that I'd replace every instance of \project
firefly_novelization_proj with \environment
firefly_novelization_env, correct?  But keeping the project file
isn't much hassle, and there might be two volumes, so...

 How to use th Gentium fonts with ConTeXt have been asked

My use of Gentium is a temporary thing for the OpenOffice mockup; I'm
asking for type suggestions on Typophile.  For the nonce I'l be
satisfied with the Latin Modern fonts.

 You forgot \setuppagenumbering[location=doublesided] in your
 environment to get a doublesided document.

Thanks; that was not obvious from any sample document I've seen.

 \setuplayout
   [backspace=48pt,
snip
footerdistance=12pt]

I'm using
\setuplayout
[marking=on
%backspace=48pt, cutspace=96pt,
backspace=36pt, cutspace=84pt,
width=fit, height=fit,
%topspace=72pt,
topspace=48pt, header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt,
%bottomspace=144pt,
bottomspace=120pt, footer=12pt, footerdistance=12pt]
right now.  Notice the backspace  cutspace values; the values you
gave me defined some sort of left and right marginal areas with a
separation between them and the main text area, and I wanted the text
area to be 6″×9″.  Now I'm thinking there must be a clearer way to
express it, something like:
width=288pt, height=432pt,
header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt,
footer=12pt, footerdistance=12pt,
left**=48pt, right**=96pt, top**=72pt, bottom**=144pt,
something to define an outer marginal area; I don't intend to put
anything in the inner margin]
where the left** c. define the distance between the paper's edge and
the edge of the text area.  Is this what the edgedistance values are?

 You could try to read the example layouts on the wiki.

I'm using those for ideas too; I'm still missing some important things though.

--Joel
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Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

2007-12-21 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Dec 21, 2007 12:29 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 location=middle (in setuplayout)

Is there a problem with having location=middle in setuplayout and
location=doublesided in setuppagenumbering?

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Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

2007-12-21 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Dec 21, 2007 12:49 PM, Joel C. Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Is there a problem with having location=middle in setuplayout and
 location=doublesided in setuppagenumbering?

Never mind; I had done something dumb with the margin widths.

Anyhow, I'm trying the environment shown below, but I'm evidently not
understanding what the various *space values are.  Only cutspace seems
to work as I expected it to; even the text area isn't the right size
(unless the rectangle isn't around the text area itself).

\definepapersize[sixbynine][width=6in,height=9in]
\setuppapersize[sixbynine][letter]
\setuplayout
[marking=on, location=middle,
textwidth=288pt, textheight=432pt,
header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, topspace=72pt,
footer=12pt, footerdistance=12pt, bottomspace=144pt,
leftmargindistance=12pt, leftmargin=24pt, backspace=48pt,
rightmargindistance=12pt, rightmargin=24pt, cutspace=96pt]
\setuppagenumbering[location=doublesided]
\showframe

--Joel
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Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

2007-12-21 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:49:04 -0500
Joel C. Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Dec 21, 2007 12:29 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  location=middle (in setuplayout)
 
 Is there a problem with having location=middle in setuplayout and
 location=doublesided in setuppagenumbering?

No problem, the doublesided option for \setuppagenumbering take care of
left and right pages in your real document while the location key for
\setuplayout place the document only on the larger paper according to
the given position.

The command for doublesided documents should be \setuppagenumbering
[alternative=doublesided] and not [location=doublesided], sorry for the
wrong information.

Wolfgang
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Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

2007-12-21 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:15:22 -0500
Joel C. Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Dec 21, 2007 12:49 PM, Joel C. Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Is there a problem with having location=middle in setuplayout and
  location=doublesided in setuppagenumbering?
 
 Never mind; I had done something dumb with the margin widths.
 
 Anyhow, I'm trying the environment shown below, but I'm evidently not
 understanding what the various *space values are.  Only cutspace seems
 to work as I expected it to; even the text area isn't the right size
 (unless the rectangle isn't around the text area itself).
 
 \definepapersize[sixbynine][width=6in,height=9in]
 \setuppapersize[sixbynine][letter]
 \setuplayout
   [marking=on, location=middle,
   textwidth=288pt, textheight=432pt,
   header=12pt, headerdistance=12pt, topspace=72pt,
   footer=12pt, footerdistance=12pt, bottomspace=144pt,
   leftmargindistance=12pt, leftmargin=24pt, backspace=48pt,
   rightmargindistance=12pt, rightmargin=24pt, cutspace=96pt]
 \setuppagenumbering[location=doublesided]
 \showframe

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout

you should also set only backspace and textwidth ond no cutspace or
you set backspace and cutspace and let ConTeXt calculate the
textwidth.

What do you mean by the rectangle around the text area.

Wolfgang
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Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

2007-12-21 Thread Joel C. Salomon
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,
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?

--Joel
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Re: [NTG-context] Setting up a project

2007-12-21 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
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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