Command/startnarrower

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\startnarrower ... \stopnarrower

Summary

The environment \startnarrower ... \stopnarrower is used to widen the margins temporarily

Settings

\startnarrower[...,...] ... \stopnarrower
[...,...][+-]left [+-]middle [+-]right number*left number*middle number*right reset reverse

OptionExplanation
[+-]left means increase left-hand margin.
[+-]middle means increase both margins.
[+-]right means increase right-hand margin.

Description

Make the margins wider on the left, the right, or (default) both sides. By default the margin(s) is/are made wider by 0.5cm; to change these distances, use \setupnarrower, or use \startnarrow. Using \startnarrower[left=2cm] does not work.

Tip

By preceding the argument with a negative sign (eg. \startnarrower[-2*left]) the text area can be made wider, rather than narrower.

Examples

Example 1

\setuppapersize[A6,landscape]
\showframe
\starttext

The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man. Their evil
tower is joined to Terra Cognita, to the lands we know, by a bridge.

\setupnarrower[left=1cm,right=3cm]

\startnarrower
    (default, middle=0.5cm) Their hoard is beyond reason; avarice has no use
    for it; they have a separate cellar for emeralds and a separate cellar for
    sapphires; they have filled a hole with gold and dig it up when they need it.
\stopnarrower


\startnarrower[left,right]
    (1cm left, 3cm right) And the only use that is known for their ridiculous
    wealth is to attract to their larder a continual supply of food.
\stopnarrower

\setupnarrower[middle=1cm]
\startnarrower
    (1cm middle) In times of famine they have even been known
    to scatter rubies   abroad, a little trail of them to some city of Man, and
    sure enough their larders would soon be full again.
\stopnarrower

\blank[line]

\rightaligned{---Lord Dunsany, \quote{The Hoard of the Gibbelins}, {\it The Book of Wonder}}
\stoptext

Notes

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