Am 23.06.2025 um 17:25 schrieb John Was:
Thanks for that Hraban.
I guess after more than 30 years of typesetting academic books and
journals in plain TeX (of whatever variety) it's hard not to think in
plain TeX terms, but I will acquire more expertise in ConTexT as time
goes by.
1. it's written ConTeXt (but nobody cares when you write Context).
2. A layout it simple when you don't try to whatever key you can find in
the manual and hope to get something acceptable as a result. The
following example shows the basic steps for a custom layout (the initial
\setuplayout is only for the example to start with a full page).
I appreciate, of course, that the nano-setting of the height parameter
is never going to be the way forward, but this started when I noticed
that a very slight alteration (of a few points) made the difference
between 39 and 41 lines on the first full page of text, while no whole
number resulted in 40 lines - hence the repeated addition of tiny
amounts to see if the magic value would emerge that simply sets 40 lines
of 12pt text on every page. Nothing so far has allowed this to happen.
When you have a fixed number of lines you have to set the interlinespace
to a fixed value because by default Context uses a font dependant
distance, e.g. \setupinterlinespace[line=15pt] can help.
Wolfgang
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