Page Layout
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Location of Areas
You can use these design areas in your page:
leftedge | leftmargin | text | rightmargin | rightedge | |
top | . | . | ↑ topspace ↓ | . | . |
header | . | . | HEADER ↑ headerheight ↓ |
. | . |
text | ←leftedgewidth→ | MARGINALS ←leftmarginwidth→ |
TEXT ←textwidth→ × ↑ textheight ↓ |
MARGINALS ←rightmarginwidth→ |
←rightedgewidth→ |
footer | . | . | FOOTER ↑ footerheight ↓ |
. | . |
bottom | . | . | . | . | . |
There's also a "distance" between each of the areas, e.g. leftedgedistance, leftmargindistance (from the named area to the inner).
Table of Parameters
Parameter | Variable | Remarks |
---|---|---|
paperheight | \paperheight | height of paper page |
paperwidth | \paperwidth | width of paper page |
printpaperheight | \printpaperheight | differs from paperheight when using Imposition (arranging) |
printpaperwidth | \printpaperwidth | differs from paperwidth when using Imposition (arranging) |
topspace | \topspace | above header: from top rim of paper to to top rim of header |
backspace | \backspace | from left rim of paper to left rim of text area |
height | \makeupheight | sum of heights of text area, header and footer (plus distances) |
width | \makeupwidth | normally same as textwidth |
top | \topheight | ?? |
topdistance | \topdistance | ?? between topspace and header ?? |
header | \headerheight | height of header area |
headerdistance | \headerdistance | between header and text |
textheight | \textheight | height of text area |
footerdistance | \footerdistance | between text and footer |
footer | \footerheight | height of footer area |
bottomdistance | \bottomdistance | ?? between footer and bottom ?? |
bottom | \bottomheight | space below footer (but isn't calculated automatically) |
leftedge | \leftedgewidth | from left rim of paper to left rim of left margin |
leftedgedistance | \leftedgedistance | ?? between leftegde and left margin ?? |
leftmargin | \leftmarginwidth | width of left margin (marginals space) |
leftmargindistance | \leftmargindistance | between left margin and text |
textwidth | \textwidth | width of text area |
rightmargindistance | \rightmargindistance | between text area and right margin |
rightmargin | \rightmarginwidth | width of right margin (marginals area) |
rightedgedistance | \rightedgedistance | ?? between right margin and right edge ?? |
rightedge | \rightedgewidth | from right margin to right rim of paper |
Setup
You define always a right page; if you use a double page layout 'right' and 'left' values are mirrored on a left page.
\setuplayout[backspace=20mm, width=160mm, topspace=20mm, top=0mm, header=0mm, footer=0mm, height=250mm]
You can make all the geometry information visible with \showlayout and the related commands.
See \setuplayout in the manual.
Hints
By using Layers, you can also place elements at specific places, as done in the BusinessCard example.
At Paul Tremblay's XML ConTeXt site, there's a lot about layout from a XML/FO perspective with some descriptive pictures.
TODO: Unfortunately it's not that easy to define a layout. We need more documentation about which parameters define which length, what influences what else etc. (See: To-Do List) |