Re: Headers / footers. Enhancement requests?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:06 AM 1/17/2002 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>(1) ability to define left, middle and right header/footer-texts:
>currently I can define EITHER left & right OR middle, but not all
>of them. Maybe a syntax like
>
>\setupheadertexts[left=pagenumber,right=chapter,middle=date]
>
>in addition to the preexistent one.

see other mail

>(2) frame stuff attached to the header and footer both as a whole
>and as separate 'blocks' (left, middle, right).
>
>I need (2) basically to add a rule under the header, which by
>now I must add using something like
>
>\def\HFLine{\hskip\marginwidth\hskip\margindistance%
>             \vrule height 10pt depth -9.8pt width\textwidth}
>\setupheader[after=\HFLine]
>
>which doesn't sound very ConTeXtish. Boxing/framing would allow
>for interesting effects with not too much effort.

Of course we can cook up an unreadable syntax for defining such lines, but 
then your friends start asking for other things, so how aboutthe followingm 
very contexy way:

\setuplayout
   [margin=1cm,header=14pt,headerdistance=6pt]

\setupheadertexts
   [oeps][oeps]

\startuseMPgraphic{page}
   StartPage ;
     draw
       llcorner Field[LeftMargin][Header] --
       lrcorner Field[Text]      [Header] ;
   StopPage ;
\stopuseMPgraphic

\defineoverlay[page][\useMPgraphic{page}]
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=page]

\starttext \input tufte \stoptext

this way you can make any line (straight, bend, with ornaments, etc) you want

Hans

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