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From: "Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: chapter title on a single empty page with background
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 23:00:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6faad9f00801061400q4f1366fbxeaf1cf81644e2edd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47814D85.4040303@wxs.nl>

On Jan 6, 2008 10:52 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> 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

Great, that works nice. Thanks a lot :)

Mojca
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      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-06 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-06 21:36 Mojca Miklavec
2008-01-06 21:52 ` Hans Hagen
2008-01-06 22:00   ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]

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