Hi John,

Perhaps http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupheadertexts will be of
some help? Though, the wiki page does not list the [text] argument in your
second command. I'm not sure that ConTeXt sees recto and verso, as the wiki
page talks of even and odd pages.

HTH,
Mica


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:16 PM, john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com> wrote:

> Since I spent the better part of two days puzzling over this
> simple task I thought I would share. The American style for
> running heads for non-fiction books is to have the current chapter on the
> left (verso) page and the current section on the right (recto)
> page. The text for each is near the spine and the page number near the
> outside edge. The layout must be set doublesided in context. Two
> commands are pertinent:
>
> \setupheader[leftstyle=bold,rightstyle=bold]
> \setupheadertexts[text][section][pagenumber][pagenumber][chapter]
>
> On the actual page spread the chapter title wll be on the laft of
> the spread and the section title on the right. But the
> \setupheadertexts command has them reversed. The recto gets
> described first and then the verso. The manual describes them
> otherwise. left then right, but it is really right, then left.
> Also the location parameter (first bracket pair) is mandatory for this
> kind of header setup. And just putting [] won't work. You have to
> specify a location.
>
> Now old hands will have memorized all these peculiarities long
> ago. I write this for beginners at the context game, like me.
>
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