On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:12:51PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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2. If I'm in a chapter that doesn't have sections, I'd like the chapter name to show up instead (without the §).

I'm not sure at all how to go about doing this. I suspect the answer is to use plain TeX but I don't understand TeX's conditional system well enough to figure out how to make it work (nor ConTeXt's marking system). If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Make a *complete* minimal example!

OK, for #2: \startsetups[sectioninfo] § \getmarking[sectionnumber] \stopsetups \setupheadertexts[\setups{sectioninfo}] \starttext \chapter{One} \input knuth \stoptext This will give me a § in the header even on the first page. I'd like to conditionally not show the § if there's no content in \getmarking[sectionnumber]. I realize this is probably a basic TeX programming thing, but I haven't yet found a resource that explains TeX as a programming language. If you know of one, please refer me to it; I'm not trying to waste anyone's time. I'll cook up a minimal example of the other thing later today. It's probably a mistake in my environment, since using the code above does not have the problem. Thanks again, -- Daniel

On Feb 15, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

\doiftextelse{\getmarking[sectionnumber]} {§ \getmarking[sectionnumber]} {\unknown}

I assume there are other helpful functions like this that aren't documented on the wiki (such as \DropCap). Is there a place where these things are documented that I should be looking? Or a particular piece of source code I should read to get acquainted with these sorts of library functions? Thanks again, — Daniel Lyons

Am 16.02.2011 um 08:36 schrieb Cedric Mauclair:

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 05:52, Daniel Lyons wrote:

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On Feb 15, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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\doiftextelse{\getmarking[sectionnumber]} {§ \getmarking[sectionnumber]} {\unknown}

I assume there are other helpful functions like this that aren't documented on the wiki (such as \DropCap). Is there a place where these things are documented that I should be looking? Or a particular piece of source code I should read to get acquainted with these sorts of library functions?

You definitely need to check syst-aux.mkiv.

The wiki explains a few of the command too: - http://tex.aanhet.net/context/syst-gen-doc.pdf - http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros Wolfgang

On Feb 15, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Daniel Lyons wrote:

On Feb 15, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Make a *complete* minimal example!

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1. If I'm in a later chapter than the current section is defined in, it shows up anyway. I'd like to prevent that.

I still haven't found a minimal example of the behavior, so later on I'll see if I can distill my error.

The problem happens reliably in my big project, but I can't seem to boil it down without getting rid of it. If I discover what it is, I'll report back, but in the meantime I've worked around it, and it seems to be a configuration issue on my end. Sorry about the trouble. — Daniel Lyons