On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Elliot Clifton wrote:

I'm typesetting a journal. I use \chapter to divide it into articles. I've defined my own heads, and I need to redefine \appendix, however despite reading the manual I cant get them behave as I want.

Problems:

1. Each article may have appendices. I've tried defining my own 'appendix' head to replace the default one, but I can't decide which to use, should I derive from chapter or section? The problem with using section as the base, is that the count from my previous sections is inherited. I don't want numbers of the form 1.1, 1.2, etc, either. I want to number my appendices independently, starting from 1 without the chapter number. Also, I would like to use roman numerals.

You can separate the appendices by a section block. For example % appendix is already a section block. By default, a section % block starts a new page, you may not want that in a journal \setupsectionblock[appendix][page=] % Change the conversion for sections in appendices. \setupsection [section-3] [appendixconversion=Romannumerals] \starttext \section{Test} \startappendices \section{An Appendix} \stopappendices \stoptext

2. I derived \Author from \section with expectation that \setupheadertexts[Papertitle][Author] would yield a header containing the author's name and the paper's title, however I get the title of the most recent section instead of the author. What can I do about this?

You need not redrive \Author from section. You can use use totally different markings, as shown below. % Define your own marking. \definemarking[Papertitle] \definemarking[Author] % Set that marking. \marking[Papertitle]{This is a \CONTEXT\ example} \marking[Author]{Aditya Mahajan} % Allow ConTeXt to do the rest :-) \setupheadertexts[Papertitle][Author] \starttext test \stoptext HTH, Aditya