page layout in 2.3.7

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I see that same values for page layout is defined in paper.scm, and a
> few of them is hard-codded in set-paper-dimensions:
> 
> (define (set-paper-dimensions m w h)
>   "M is a module (i.e. paper->scope_ )"
>   (let* ((mm (eval 'mm m)))
>     (module-define! m 'hsize w)
>     (module-define! m 'vsize h)
>     (module-define! m 'linewidth (- w (* 20 mm)))
>     (module-define! m 'indent (/ w 14))
> 
>     ;; page layout - what to do with (printer specific!) margin settings?
>     (module-define! m 'top-margin (* 5 mm))
>     (module-define! m 'bottom-margin (* 6 mm))
>     (module-define! m 'head-sep (* 4 mm))
>     (module-define! m 'foot-sep (* 4 mm))))
> 
> How about making top-margin and bottom-margin available as a variable
> to be defined in "\paper" as well? It would also be terrific to have
> things like left-margin and right-margin.

Yup, good idea -- I'd love see a patch (or better yet, automagically
get this by doing "cvs up")


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