Re: The name of the current section?

["Mikael Persson" <mickep@math.chalmers.se>]

> Hi.
>
> Many thanks for your kind answer.
>
>> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,
>>    location={header,marginedge}]
>> \setupheadertexts
>>    [section][{\headnumber[section]}][chapter][{\headnumber[chapter]}]
>
> Your code is rather nice (I have learned one nice trick from it), but it
> doesn't what I need. I want all the header stuff to go just separated by
> spaces, not on different sides of the header. Something like this
>
> 117_This_is_an_chapter_name_(chap._5)___________________________________________________________________
> where "_" stands for a space.
>
> Well, with your trick I could possibly to it with some \hfill, but it's
> a rather tricky solution. Moreover, I may need the name of a current
> chapter and section in the document itself. I guess there must be some
> system solution for such a case in the ConTeXt (I think there is almost
> everything in it.) :-)
>
> Of course, as the last instance I can redefine \chapter and \section in
> a way like this
>     \let\OriChapter=\chapter
>     \def\chapter#1{\def\currentchaptername{#1}\chapter{#1}}
> but I don't want to do it -- it is dirty and involves more programming
> to cover crossreferences.
>
> Any more hint how to get the name of current chapter/section?
>
> With best regards
> Michal Kvasnicka
>

I found this in one of my old docs. Is that what you want?

\setupheadertexts
    [{\headnumber[section]\quad\getmarking[section][current]}]
    []
    []
    [{Chapter \headnumber[chapter]:\quad\getmarking[chapter][current]}]


Regards, Micke P