Thank you, Wolfgang, that's exactly what I wanted. Greetings Thomas Am 26.03.24 um 17:12 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: > When you use "header=high" you can't have a header because the block > for it no longer exists, compare the results for "header=high" and > "header=empty" in the following example. > > %%%% begin example > \showframe > > \starttext > > \setuphead[chapter][header=high] > > \chapter{Lorem Ipsum} > > \dorecurse{10}{\samplefile{lorem}} > > \setuphead[chapter][header=empty] > > \chapter{Lorem Ipsum} > > \dorecurse{10}{\samplefile{lorem}} > > \stoptext > %%%% end example > > As you have guessed \definetext is the way to create a custom header > for the first page of your \chapter, the command has like > \setupheadertexts a variable number of arguments. > > The third argument with the horizontal position can only be used when > you use two or four arguments to set texts on the left and right side > but isn't in my example because a) the text position is the default > and b) I pass only one argument for the content because I wan't the > text in the middle. > > %%%% begin example > \showframe > > \definetext >   [chapterheader] % identifier >   [header]        % vertical position (header/footer) > % [text]          % horizontal position (text/margin) >   [This is a custom header for \tex{chapter}] % content > > \setuphead[chapter][header=chapterheader] > > \starttext > > \chapter{Lorem Ipsum} > > \dorecurse{10}{\samplefile{lorem}} > > \stoptext