Re: custom header/footer for 1st/other pages of section

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>]

Mike Cooper schrieb am 11.08.2020 um 19:20:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wolfgang Schuster [mailto:wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 10:07 AM
>> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users
>> Cc: Mike Cooper
>> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] custom header/footer for 1st/other pages of section
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>> Mike Cooper schrieb am 10.08.2020 um 23:40:
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>>>
>>> Thank you Wolfgang!
>>>
>>> I tried to change your code from chapters to sections (since that's what I was
>> already using) but it didn't work.  So, I switched my sections to chapters and it
>> works great!  But it also caused me to run into other things I'd set up manually that
>> I'm having to figure out---good way to learn!  Haha!
>>
>> You can only set header or footer settings when the section starts on a
>> new page. Permitting these two values for every section without this
>> restrictions can lead to problems because there can be cases where you
>> have different section levels on the same page and the setting from the
>> last command on the page counts.
> 
> That makes sense.  I wasn't really thinking of my sections as "chapters" per se.  And I was forcing sections (each >5 pages) to start on new (odd) pages.  But switching to chapters is fine and takes care of some other stuff I was forcing.


You don't have to use \chapter as first level section which starts on a 
new page, you can do the same with \section when you use

   \setuphead
     [section]
     [page={yes,odd}]


>>> One thing I *CANNOT* figure out:  I've been using \doifoddpageelse to put in a
>> blank/empty page at the end of a section (if needed) so that new sections always
>> start on an odd page.  This is still working with the change to chapters from
>> sections, EXCEPT for the first chapter (after TOC)!  Totally stuck with that one...
>>
>> Let me guess you divide your document into section blocks (frontmatter,
>> bodymatter etc.).
>>
>> When this is the case you have to first disable the page setting for
>> these blocks because they interfere with the header/footer setting. To
>> disable the page breaks add
>>
>>     \setupsectionblock
>>       [frontpart,bodypart]
>>       [page=no]
>>
>> to your document setups.
> 
> How does this interact with \startsectionblockenvrironment?  I found this on wiki.contextgarden.net/Table_of_Contents for suppressing header/footer on TOC.  I did not specify frontmatter before, but moving the header/footer content into the environment file messed up my formerly clean TOC page.  :-)   So, I've currently got:
> 
>     \startsectionblockenvironment[frontpart]
>        \setupheader[state=none]
>        \setupfooter[state=none]
>     \stopsectionblockenvironment
> 
> Do I keep this and also include your code above?  Or can both things be taken care of together somehow?


Both a different setups for different purposes.


In my setup I tell ConTeXt not to force a page break when it encounters 
\startfrontmatter or \stopfrontmatter because I insert the break with 
\chapter.


With the sectionblockenvironment-environment you can set a list of 
settings which are inserted at the start of block, i.e. your settings 
above do the same as

   \startfrontmatter

   \setupheader[...]
   \setupfooter[...]

   ...

   \stopfrontmatter

where I added the setting to the start of the block. The advantage of 
\startsectionblockenvironment is that you have separated the layout from 
the content.

Wolfgang
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