Re: Module t-letter: Headers, Footers And Back Address

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 03.09.2010 um 02:13 schrieb benedikt k:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> an issue arised while writing a letter with the third party module
> t-letter (http://modules.contextgarden.net/letter).
> 
> I've read the official documentation (Correspondence with ConTeXt) but
> I found no solution to:
> 
> a) Setup a header/footer for the first page and configure a different
> one for the following pages.
> 
> Page 46 of the documentation describes the setup of the specific
> (letter) layers. With the "state" parameter it's possible to enable (=
> "start"), disable (= "stop") the header or start it on the second page
> and the following (= "next"), but if I configure the header for the
> first
> page with
> 
> \setupletterstyle[head]
> [
> state=start,
> alternative=left,
> fromrule=top,
> ]
> 
> and then for the following pages
> 
> \setupletterstyle[head]
> [
> state=next,
> ...
> ]
> 
> only the second setup is typeset. From this it follows that the first
> setup is just overwritten.


This is the usual behavior of all setup commands in context, later settings
overwrite earlier ones. To set different header you can use 'head' for the
first page and 'nexthead' for the following pages.

> The header on the first page  should only contain a name and than a
> thin line (a "\hairline" similar to the built-in variable "fromrule").
> 
> The header on the following pages should contain variable things and
> than also a thin line.
> 
> Unfortunately I found no possibility to get this done.

\defineletterelement[head][benedikt]
  {\lettervalue{fromname}
   \hairline}

\defineletterelement[nexthead][benedikt]
   {...
    \hairline}

\setupletterstyle[head,nexthead][alternative=benedikt]

> b) I would like to define a back address which should be typeset above
> the addressee.
> 
> Page 44 of the documentation illustrates amongst other layers the back
> address layer, but there is no way to activate and configure this
> layer. I've tried it with \setupletter[backaddress][...] and
> \setuplayer[backaddress][...].

Enable it with \setupletterstyle[backaddress=yes], it's disabled by default.

Wolfgang

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