First go at book with ConTeXt, questions

[fg@fgbbs.iaf.nl (Frans Goddijn)]

Long message with a batch of ordered questions...

First this: I have several (MAPS) ConTeXt manuals opened 
      on a chair nearby. I'm also lucky to have an old 
      big printed manual version 960122 at hand. The MAPS 
      manuals are pleasant appatizers but not so handy for 
      looking things up. For instance, in the table of 
      contents in MAPS 19 defining commands is said to be 
      on page 85, but that page is not in that MAPS. The 
      next manual in MAPS has a new page numbering and no 
      table of contents...
      I couldn't find the ConTeXt syntax replacing my 
      familiar \Large, \Huge etcetera. Taco told me this is 
      {\tfa foobar} for a small word "foobar" and then tfb, 
      tfc etcetera for bigger characters. This \tfa...e 
      command is not in the command list in the big PDF 
      manual though. The old paper manual showed (page 111) 
      that big characters can be printed (I need those for 
      the title page), but it's not shown how that is done. 
      The example "Grote Woorden" is shown as result, but 
      without the macro prividing that result. 
      (In de PDF version of the manual, clicking on the 
      left green marginal marker for page 102 showed the 
      command, though!) 
      So, perseverance helps ;=}

said Hans Hagen to me:

 HH> \setuplayout[rugwit=19mm,breedte=midden,kopwit=8mm,hoogte=midden] 

Currently I have

\stellayoutin[plaats=midden,markering=aan,hoogte=midden,
              kopwit=2cm,
              hoofd=0mm,
              voet=10mm,
              rugwit=18mm,
              breedte=110mm
              ]

Does that look o.k. to you as well?
Is the order/sequence of these settings of influence on the results?

 HH> Of course you must also specify
 HH>    [header=,footer=] 

Is this a "must" from the start or could I wait until I know if I want to
have headers and/or footers, and if so, what I want to put in them?  

 HH> Putting the pagenumber in the middle,
 HH>   \stelnummeringin[plaats={voet,midden},letter=\os]  

I currently have this:

\stelnummeringin[plaats={voet,midden},letter=\oldstyle]

* are \os and \oldstyle identical?

* I understand I must do {\oldstyle 123} to get 23 in oldstyle 
  but I would visually prefer a syntax like \os{123}. 
  Is this easy to accomplish?

* What is the ConTeXt equivalent for \thispagestyle{empty}? 
  On some pages I want no pagenumbers. 

* I want to put an EPS file (the publisher's logo) on the inner title
page. 
  If I look at page 106 of MAPS 20, I think I could do

\regelmidden{
\externfiguur
        [c:/ourfiles/eps/lsylogo.eps] % can I specify path here?
        [breedte=4cm,methode=eps]
        % I wonder what mps means in the original example...
        }

The old LaTeX command was:
\hspace*{35mm}{\includegraphics[width=4cm]{c:/ourfiles/eps/lsylogo.eps}}%

Am I right?

The other ConTeXt manuals show very advanced tricks, with text around the
pictures, figure numbers and text under the pictures and reference info
which cloud my view... In the PDF manual an example is given which should
show a cow in the text, but the cow is missing... ;=}

Furthermore, I am afraid I must convert the eps into pdf in some new way
to be able to later generate a PDF file of the book, right? Whjat's the
best way to do this? Send the eps to a friendly someone with Adobe's
Distiller?

PS: I enjoy this process of learning ConTeXt. It's a sort of TeX adventure
game for me and as much fun as getting a new PC is. New possibillities!
Hidden doors and options to be found! ;=}

Met hartelijke groet!

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