Mojca Miklavec wrote:

Hello,

for some reason I have always been using standardmakeup for separating chapters in slides (I don't know if that's a good idea or not), but this fails:

\setupcolors [state=start] \setuphead [chapter] [page=yes, number=no, command=\mychaptercommand] \setuphead [section] [page=yes, number=no] \def\mychaptercommand#1#2{% \bgroup \startstandardmakeup \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=blue] % doesn't work \switchtobodyfont[30pt]{#2} \stopstandardmakeup \egroup}

\starttext \chapter{Chapter}

\section{Section} % starts on the first page \input tufte \stoptext

I have now used

\def\mychapter#1#2{% % the only way to make background color work \page\bgroup \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=blue] \startstandardmakeup \switchtobodyfont[30pt]{#1: #2} \stopstandardmakeup \egroup}

as a workaround, but I wonder: is my first attempt something that's simply forbidden to use or did I use it in a wrong way?

just keep in mind that makeups are just vboxes, and that the chapter commands does quite some things, page=,before=\startstandardmakeup,after=\stopstandardmakeup may be a safer way -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------