\textrules in header

\textrules in header

[Peter Jander]

Hi,

I want a line to separate the header from the text body. Now if I say 

\setupheader[after=\textrule]

the line starts in the margin. The length is the width of the text 
(which is ok). The same happens with a \hairline.
Any suggestions on how I can make the line span just the text 
block?

Thanks,
Peter

Re: \textrules in header

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:40 AM 10/18/2001 +0000, Peter Jander wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I want a line to separate the header from the text body. Now if I say
>
>\setupheader[after=\textrule]
>
>the line starts in the margin. The length is the width of the text
>(which is ok). The same happens with a \hairline.
>Any suggestions on how I can make the line span just the text
>block?

\setupbackgrounds[header][text][frame=on,topframe=off,leftframe=off,rightframe=off]

\setuplayout[header=18pt,headerdistance=12pt]

\starttext \input tufte \stoptext

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A new ConTeXt user (possibly)

[Jose Luis Diaz]

Hi all,

I'm   a  regular  user  of  LaTeX,  (even an advanced one, I may say).
Recently I was intrigued by ConTeXt. I   knew  ConTeXt time ago, and I
was   always  impressed by its apparent flexibilty, simplicity and the
good  results  t  produced.  However,  I  was  afraid  of  trying  it,
because   I'm  Spanish,  and  I  thought that ConTeXt will not have as
good support as LaTeX for the spanish language.

Recently, I  decided  finally  to  download ConTeXt and give it a try.
After a few days reading the (excellent) documentation and trying some
examples,  I  finally  discovered   that  ConTeXt  has  a good Spanish
support.  That was great!

I   have  to  write  a  PhD  thesis,  and I'm considering switching to
ConTeXt   for   doing   this, however I'm a bit afraid of doing so. My
main  concerns    are   the   support   for   BibTeX   and   for  high
mathematics typesetting.

If  I'm not wrong, ConTeXt is based in Plain TeX, so I wonder if I can
use AMSTeX with ConTeXt. Which would be your advise?

Thank you for any answer, and please, excuse my english.

Best Regards,
-- 
 Jose                            mailto:jldiaz@telecable.es

Re: A new ConTeXt user (possibly)

[David Antos]

> I   have  to  write  a  PhD  thesis,  and I'm considering switching to
> ConTeXt   for   doing   this, however I'm a bit afraid of doing so. My
> main  concerns    are   the   support   for   BibTeX   and   for  high

Hi,

there is a biblography module under development, have a look at
http://www.elvenkind.com/~taco/bibmod/

It's still a bit alpha, but very good.

D.A.

Re: \textrules in header

[Marco Kuhlmann]

Hans Hagen wrote (2001-10-18 (13:09)):

> At 09:40 AM 10/18/2001 +0000, Peter Jander wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I want a line to separate the header from the text body. Now if I say
> >
> >\setupheader[after=\textrule]
> >
> >the line starts in the margin. The length is the width of the text
> >(which is ok). The same happens with a \hairline.
> >Any suggestions on how I can make the line span just the text
> >block?
> 
> \setupbackgrounds[header][text][frame=on,topframe=off,leftframe=off,rightframe=off]
> 
> \setuplayout[header=18pt,headerdistance=12pt]
> 
> \starttext \input tufte \stoptext

Why doesn't Peter's solution work? It is the first that a new
user will think about (well, I did, at least :-). And the rules
really are something that logically belongs to the header, not
to the background. For example, when you start a new chapter,
and switch off the header on its first page, then you want the
rule to disappear as well, and not to switch it off separately
by changing the state of the background. (By the way, how would
that work? Can you give a \setuphead solution?)

    Marco

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