Re: [NTG-context] help with facing page image

7 Mar 2022

      On Monday, March 7, 2022 11:50 AM jbf wrote:
...
All ten images are different, though, in my case (Chapter1.jpg, 
Chapter2.jpg... Chapter10.jpg all in a pics directory, so I'd point 
\setupexternalfigures to that). I wonder if there is a way to list them 
so that they get called in order as chapters proceed. A kind of "if such 
and such then \setlayer 1,2,3...."
I think that should be easy. Suppose you have images 
{chap-cover-1.jpg, chap-cover-2.jpg,  ... chap-cover-10.jpg}
each of which appear at the ends of their respective chapters, then the following achieves what you want (once you point ConTeXt to the right directory for figures of course):

% kate: hl ctx
%%% SOF
  \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]

  \definelayer
    [chapCover]
    [x=0mm,
     y=0mm,
     width=\paperwidth,
     height=\paperheight,repeat=yes]

  \startsetups chapter:before
  \doifoddpageelse{}
    {\pushbackground[page]
     \resetlayer[chapCover]
     \setlayer
     [chapCover]
     {\determineheadnumber[chapter]
      \externalfigure
        [chap-cover-\currentheadnumber]
        [width=\paperwidth]}
      \setupbackgrounds[page][background=chapCover]
      \page[empty]
      \popbackground}
  \stopsetups

  \startsetups chapter:after
  \doifoddpageelse{}
    {\page[empty]}
  \stopsetups

  \setuphead
    [chapter]
    [page=yes,
     before=\directsetup{chapter:before},
     aftersection=\directsetup{chapter:after}]

  \starttext
  \dorecurse{10}{
    \startchapter[title={Chapter \convertnumber{word}{\recurselevel}}]
      \input knuth
      \ifnum\headnumber[chapter]=5
      {\bfd five}
      \fi
      \blank
      \input tufte
      \blank
      \input ward
      \blank
      \ifnum\recurselevel=5
        \page
        \input zapf
        \input zapf
      \fi
    \stopchapter
  }
  \stoptext
%%% EOF

So we figure out which chapter we are in and then set the layer to the corresponding picture. Personally, I much prefer to collect all the images into a separate PDF with:

%%% chap-covers.tex
    \starttext
    \dorecurse{10}{\startTEXpage
    \externalfigure[chap-cover-\recurselevel]
    \stopTEXpage}
    \stoptext
%%% EOF

[and get 'chap-covers.pdf' from context]

... and then modify the 'before' setup to read as below

%%% 
  \startsetups chapter:before
  \doifoddpageelse{}
    {\pushbackground[page]
     \resetlayer[chapCover]
     \setlayer
     [chapCover]
     {\determineheadnumber[chapter]
      \externalfigure
        [chap-covers]
        [page=\currentheadnumber,width=\paperwidth]}
      \setupbackgrounds[page][background=chapCover]
      \page[empty]
      \popbackground}
  \stopsetups
%%%

Sreeram

Re: [NTG-context] help with facing page image

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