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From: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
To: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \setupheadertexts \setupfootertexts
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 14:26:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190802142614.0053e1d2@poo.hsd1.co.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4652c50-56b8-83bb-058c-fddb3b32b90d@gmail.com>

On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 21:08:00 +0200
Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you



> When you use three arguments the first is used for the position of text, 
> i.e. above the text, margin or edge areas.

I know this, and I find the syntax unfortunate, to say the least.

> Only six or seven arguments work in this case but this only useful in a 
> double sided document.

Indeed, a double-sided (asymmetric) document.
And it is pretty unwieldy.

> You need a new command for this because adding an assignment option can 
> produce unexpected results, e.g. the example below won't work anymore.
> 
> \setupheadertexts[{\date[d=...,m=...,y=...]}]

Well, what would make sense?
I would have no problem dropping/ignoring this (historic) command.
How about:

\setupheader [left=,leftodd=,middle=,...]
\setupfooter

or

\setupheader [lefttext=,leftoddtext=,middletext=,...]

This would be logical.

Alan
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-02 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-02 18:29 Alan Braslau
2019-08-02 19:08 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2019-08-02 20:26   ` Alan Braslau [this message]
2019-08-02 21:10     ` Hans Hagen
2019-08-02 21:36       ` Wolfgang Schuster
2019-08-02 21:59         ` Alan Braslau
2019-08-02 22:23           ` Hans Hagen
2019-08-02 22:31           ` Hans Hagen
2019-08-02 22:46         ` Hans Hagen

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