On Friday 09 June 2006 15:33, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
ntg-context@ntg.nl
Very impressive, but surely there is a simpler solution! I just want one header on the left hand page, a different one on the right, and both of them centered on their respective pages.
\def\MyHeader{ \doifoddpageelse{Odd Header} {Even Header}}
\setupheadertexts[\MyHeader]
If you want you can extend it to recognize keywords like date, pagenumber, section etc.
Yes, I can do the above. Unfortunately the keywords like chapter lose their special meaning when enclosed in any way. For example \setupheadertexts [chapter] [][] [\hfil\hbox to 20em{\stretched{\tfb\sc Independent{}Publishing}}\hfil] ...works, but as soon as I place any command ahead of the keyword chapter it just becomes the word "chapter". for example this doesn't work: \setupheadertexts [\hfil chapter\hfil] [][] [\hfil\hbox to 20em{\stretched{\tfb\sc Independent{}Publishing}}\hfil] And if I put commands in the \setupheader statement then this works: \setupheader[text][before={\tfb\sc\hskip 1in}}] but this has no effect: \setupheader[text][before={\tfb\sc\hfil},after={\hfil}] I can of course roll my own as you suggest above. But if I want chapter as a variable then I will have to encapsulate my \chapter command thus: \def\Chapter#1{\global\def\mychaptername{#1}\chapter{#1}} ...and use \mychaptername in my home grown header routine. In fact I have done just that today: \def\mychapter{} \def\Chapter#1{\global\def\mychapter{\tfb\sc\hfil#1\hfil}\chapter#1} I can probably even get stretching in there if I work at it. I don't mind doing this kind of plain tex manipulation but it still seems to me that Context should handle it somehow. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf