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You When you define a page layout, it's always define a right pagethat you're defining; if you use a double page layout, 'right' and 'left' values are mirrored on a left page. Doublesided typesetting is activated with {{cmd|setuppagenumbering|[alternative=doublesided]}}.
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→Defining the layout: Clarified wording
Positioning the areas is by setting the following dimensions using {{cmd|setuplayout|[backspace=5cm,...]}}. The dimensions are mentioned in order of how ‘primitive’ they are: e.g. altering the {{code|topspace}} pushes around all other vertical dimensions, but altering the {{code|header}} affects only the {{code|headerdistance}} and the {{code|textheight}}.
# Set the {{code|backspace}} and {{code|width}}, and the {{code|topspace}} and {{code|height}}. The {{code|width}} is the width of the main typesetting area; the {{code|backspace}} is its distance from the left edge of the page. The {{code|height}} is the distance ''from the top of the header to the bottom of the footer''; the {{code|topspace}} is the distance from the top edge of the page to the top of the header.
** '''[[Columns]]'''
** '''[[Layers]]''', for absolute positioning of objects on the page, background, foreground etc.)
** '''[[Working on Gridtypesetting]]''' (working with fixed distances)
** '''[[Delimiter]]''', master line break and page break
** '''[[Hiding Content]]'''
* For layout from a [[Formatting Objects|XML/FO]] perspective, with some descriptive pictures, see At [http://getfo.sourceforge.net/context_xml/index.html Paul Tremblay's] [[XML]] ConTeXt site.
[[Category:Layout]]
