Hello everyone, an issue arised while writing a letter with the third party module t-letter (http://modules.contextgarden.net/letter). I've read the official documentation (Correspondence with ConTeXt) but I found no solution to: a) Setup a header/footer for the first page and configure a different one for the following pages. Page 46 of the documentation describes the setup of the specific (letter) layers. With the "state" parameter it's possible to enable (= "start"), disable (= "stop") the header or start it on the second page and the following (= "next"), but if I configure the header for the first page with \setupletterstyle[head] [ state=start, alternative=left, fromrule=top, ] and then for the following pages \setupletterstyle[head] [ state=next, ... ] only the second setup is typeset. From this it follows that the first setup is just overwritten. The header on the first page should only contain a name and than a thin line (a "\hairline" similar to the built-in variable "fromrule"). The header on the following pages should contain variable things and than also a thin line. Unfortunately I found no possibility to get this done. b) I would like to define a back address which should be typeset above the addressee. Page 44 of the documentation illustrates amongst other layers the back address layer, but there is no way to activate and configure this layer. I've tried it with \setupletter[backaddress][...] and \setuplayer[backaddress][...]. Maybe someone have a tip. Thank you and have a nice week. Benedikt ps: A small (commented) letter template is attached below (as tex file).
Am 03.09.2010 um 02:13 schrieb benedikt k:
Hello everyone,
an issue arised while writing a letter with the third party module t-letter (http://modules.contextgarden.net/letter).
I've read the official documentation (Correspondence with ConTeXt) but I found no solution to:
a) Setup a header/footer for the first page and configure a different one for the following pages.
Page 46 of the documentation describes the setup of the specific (letter) layers. With the "state" parameter it's possible to enable (= "start"), disable (= "stop") the header or start it on the second page and the following (= "next"), but if I configure the header for the first page with
\setupletterstyle[head] [ state=start, alternative=left, fromrule=top, ]
and then for the following pages
\setupletterstyle[head] [ state=next, ... ]
only the second setup is typeset. From this it follows that the first setup is just overwritten.
This is the usual behavior of all setup commands in context, later settings overwrite earlier ones. To set different header you can use 'head' for the first page and 'nexthead' for the following pages.
The header on the first page should only contain a name and than a thin line (a "\hairline" similar to the built-in variable "fromrule").
The header on the following pages should contain variable things and than also a thin line.
Unfortunately I found no possibility to get this done.
\defineletterelement[head][benedikt] {\lettervalue{fromname} \hairline} \defineletterelement[nexthead][benedikt] {... \hairline} \setupletterstyle[head,nexthead][alternative=benedikt]
b) I would like to define a back address which should be typeset above the addressee.
Page 44 of the documentation illustrates amongst other layers the back address layer, but there is no way to activate and configure this layer. I've tried it with \setupletter[backaddress][...] and \setuplayer[backaddress][...].
Enable it with \setupletterstyle[backaddress=yes], it's disabled by default. Wolfgang
Hello Wolfgang, thank you very much for answering my questions. It was not my intention to disturb you again when posting my issues to the mailing list for ConTeXt users. All things work for me now. :)
only the second setup is typeset. From this it follows that the first setup is just overwritten.
This is the usual behavior of all setup commands in context, later settings overwrite earlier ones. To set different header you can use 'head' for the first page and 'nexthead' for the following pages.
This behaviour makes sense to me. I reckoned with this behaviour but found no solution to adjust it to my needs. Thank you for your help.
\defineletterelement[head][benedikt] {\lettervalue{fromname} \hairline}
\defineletterelement[nexthead][benedikt] {... \hairline}
\defineletterelement[head][benedikt]
I've found this procedure also in the correspeondence documentation
now (http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules/t-letter/doc/context/third/letter/corres...).
It's described in chapter nine ("Reference Line") on page 93. I
omitted this chapter when i firstly read the documentation.
With
\defineletterelement[layername][alternativename]
a predefined letter layer can be configured/defined and then it can be
enabled with the command
\setupletterstyle[layername][alternative=alternativename].
You've already predefined all important letter layers (for instance a
header for the first page and another one for the following pages).
It's great.
I've succeeded to adapt the default letter module design to my needs.
The modified design was inspired by the LaTeX class g-brief2 from
Michael Lenzen (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/g-brief/).
Maybe it's interesting for somenone, so I post it here:
Preview first page:
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1937/p2f12836835744890.png
Preview second page:
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/9648/p2f12836835744891.png
The tex source is attached below.
Thanks a lot Wolfgang!
Benedikt
2010/9/3 Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.09.2010 um 02:13 schrieb benedikt k:
Hello everyone,
an issue arised while writing a letter with the third party module t-letter (http://modules.contextgarden.net/letter).
I've read the official documentation (Correspondence with ConTeXt) but I found no solution to:
a) Setup a header/footer for the first page and configure a different one for the following pages.
Page 46 of the documentation describes the setup of the specific (letter) layers. With the "state" parameter it's possible to enable (= "start"), disable (= "stop") the header or start it on the second page and the following (= "next"), but if I configure the header for the first page with
\setupletterstyle[head] [ state=start, alternative=left, fromrule=top, ]
and then for the following pages
\setupletterstyle[head] [ state=next, ... ]
only the second setup is typeset. From this it follows that the first setup is just overwritten.
This is the usual behavior of all setup commands in context, later settings overwrite earlier ones. To set different header you can use 'head' for the first page and 'nexthead' for the following pages.
The header on the first page should only contain a name and than a thin line (a "\hairline" similar to the built-in variable "fromrule").
The header on the following pages should contain variable things and than also a thin line.
Unfortunately I found no possibility to get this done.
\defineletterelement[head][benedikt] {\lettervalue{fromname} \hairline}
\defineletterelement[nexthead][benedikt] {... \hairline}
\setupletterstyle[head,nexthead][alternative=benedikt]
b) I would like to define a back address which should be typeset above the addressee.
Page 44 of the documentation illustrates amongst other layers the back address layer, but there is no way to activate and configure this layer. I've tried it with \setupletter[backaddress][...] and \setuplayer[backaddress][...].
Enable it with \setupletterstyle[backaddress=yes], it's disabled by default.
Wolfgang
Am 05.09.2010 um 12:52 schrieb benedikt k:
I've succeeded to adapt the default letter module design to my needs. The modified design was inspired by the LaTeX class g-brief2 from Michael Lenzen (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/g-brief/).
I made a style file [1] out your code with a few modifications, as it depends on other files (label.nle and t-correspondence.mkix) you have to wait for the next release of the module. [1] http://bitbucket.org/wolfs/correspondence/src/tip/files/gbrief.nls Wolfgang
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