From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: chapter title on a single empty page with background
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:52:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47814D85.4040303@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00801061336o4778f97i8397be1cd0d8fa3e@mail.gmail.com>
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> for some reason I have always been using standardmakeup for separating
> chapters in slides (I don't know if that's a good idea or not), but
> this fails:
>
> \setupcolors
> [state=start]
> \setuphead
> [chapter]
> [page=yes,
> number=no,
> command=\mychaptercommand]
> \setuphead
> [section]
> [page=yes,
> number=no]
> \def\mychaptercommand#1#2{%
> \bgroup
> \startstandardmakeup
> \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=blue] % doesn't work
> \switchtobodyfont[30pt]{#2}
> \stopstandardmakeup
> \egroup}
>
> \starttext
> \chapter{Chapter}
>
> \section{Section} % starts on the first page
> \input tufte
> \stoptext
>
> I have now used
>
> \def\mychapter#1#2{%
> % the only way to make background color work
> \page\bgroup
> \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=blue]
> \startstandardmakeup
> \switchtobodyfont[30pt]{#1: #2}
> \stopstandardmakeup
> \egroup}
>
> as a workaround, but I wonder: is my first attempt something that's
> simply forbidden to use or did I use it in a wrong way?
just keep in mind that makeups are just vboxes, and that the chapter
commands does quite some things,
page=,before=\startstandardmakeup,after=\stopstandardmakeup
may be a safer way
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2008-01-06 21:36 Mojca Miklavec
2008-01-06 21:52 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2008-01-06 22:00 ` Mojca Miklavec
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