Re: Doublesided, with header text centered.

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote:

> On Friday 09 June 2006 15:33, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>> ntg-context@ntg.nl
>>>
>>> Very impressive, but surely there is a simpler solution! I just
>>> want one header on the left hand page, a different one on the
>>> right, and both of them centered on their respective pages.
>>
>> \def\MyHeader{
>>    \doifoddpageelse{Odd Header}
>>    {Even Header}}
>>
>> \setupheadertexts[\MyHeader]
>>
>> If you want you can extend it to recognize keywords like date,
>> pagenumber, section etc.
>>
> Yes, I can do the above. Unfortunately the keywords like chapter
> lose their special meaning when enclosed in any way. For example
> \setupheadertexts
> [chapter]
> [][]
> [\hfil\hbox to 20em{\stretched{\tfb\sc
> Independent{}Publishing}}\hfil]
>
> ...works, but as soon as I place any command ahead of the keyword
> chapter it just becomes the word "chapter". for example this
> doesn't work:
> [code snipped]

You can use the \domagic macro from my previous email to handle 
chapter, date and pagenumber.

> I can of course roll my own as you suggest above. But if I want
> chapter as a variable then I will have to encapsulate my \chapter
> command thus:
> [code snipped]
>
> I don't mind doing this kind of plain tex manipulation but it
> still seems to me that Context should handle it somehow.

If you just want chapter markings, use \getmarking[chapter].

Aditya