Re: [NTG-context] setup different layouts in merged documents

Am 17.02.2015 um 20:49 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez :

Dear list,

I have the following sample:

\setuplayout[margin=20mm, width=fit, topspace=45mm, bottomspace=25mm,height=fit] \showframe \definelayout[first][margin=20mm, width=fit, topspace=110mm, bottomspace=20mm, height=fit] \usemodule[scancsv] \starttext \startbuffer[text-content] \definelayer[FirstLayer][state=start] \setlayer[FirstLayer]{First page} \definelayer[OtherLayer][state=continue] \setlayer[OtherLayer]{Other pages} \setupbackgrounds[page][background={FirstLayer,OtherLayer}] %~ \mbox{}\blank[75mm] \dorecurse{17}{\input zapf\par} \cA\hfill \cB \page \stopbuffer

\opencsvfile{mail.csv} \doloop{\ifnotEOF\getbuffer[text-content]\nextrow\else\exitloop\fi} %OK \stoptext

Contents of mail.csv:

"ME";11/10/14 "You";05/02/14 "She";03/03/12 "It";03/03/14

t-scancsv.lua can be found at http://public.hajtmar.com/files/TeX/context/t-scancsv_ConTeXt_module/t-scanc.... It is an awesome module for document merging.

I’m having a problem that I don’t know how to solve.

Each merged document has different layers for the first and other pages.

But I don’t know how to set a different layout for the first page in each merged document. I have tried three options.

1. \definelayout[first] only works for the first page in document, not for each merged document.

2. \definelayout[even] and \definelayout[odd] work as long as each merged document contains less than three pages. Otherwise, it won’t work.

You can go to a right page at the begin of entry with \page[right].

3. Adding an \mbox{}\blank[75mm] would do the job, but it’s a crappy way to work with ConTeXt (and it might lead to errors in the future).

Use \blank[force,…] when you need a vertical skip at the begin of a page. Wolfgang