On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Peter I. Hansen wrote:

> On 7/1/07, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Peter I. Hansen wrote:
>>
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > Just getting started with ConTeXt, and liking it so far :)
>> >
>> > However, I would like to use something similar to the LaTeX 'fancyhdr'
>> > package. I've been poking around trying to find such a thing and the
>> closest
>> > I could get is:
>> >
>> > http://osdir.com/ml/tex.context/2001-10/msg00094.html
>> >
>> > I can't find it in the manual, so if it is built in maybe one of you
>> guys
>> > can tell how to use it?
>>
>> Look at Section 4.17 of ConTeXt manual
>> <http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-enp.pdf>
>
>
> What I would like to do is for example to frame the headertext, and I tried
> with eg.
>
> \setupheadertexts  [chapter][pagenumber]
> \setupheader         [style=\inframed]
>
> But this creates a framed chapter text and a framed pagenumber. How do I put
> both in one frame?
>

\setupbackgrounds  [header][text][frame=on]

To get a decent visual effect, you need to set the header height to be
something reasonable, for example

\setuplayout[header=2\lineheight]

Thanks, this works for me. One thing though, I would like to turn the framing off on pages where a chapter begins. I tried \setuphead[chapter][header=empty], but this just gives me an empty frame.
Is there a way to selectively turn of backgounds on for example chapter pages?