On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

>
> Am 22.02.2010 um 15:25 schrieb Roger Mason:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working on a project to set up exams, basing the work on Aditya's
>> asignment class that was published in Practex in 2006.
>>
>> I have a problem getting title information printed correctly.  This is a
>> cut-down version:
>>
>> […]
>>
>> I'm processing this with Mark II.  The problems are that
>>
>> (1) The literal 'Examcourse' is typeset;
>> (2) Today's date is typset, not the one entered in the interface;
>> (3) The start and stop times are typeset as literals 'Examstart' & 'Examstop'
>
> You forgot the backslash in front of your values.
>
> It’s also bad style to misuse the \title command for your document title
> because \title is only the unnumbered version of \chapter, nothing else.

OK. That style was my first real project with ConTeXt, so it some 
non-canonical setups. These days I use:

\definehead[assignment][...]

\setuphead[assignment][...]

\startassignment[...]
  ...
\stopassignment

which gives a much better control over the exported xhtml file.


> Another way to create your document title is the following code:

> \setupcolors  [state=start]
>
> \definecolor  [colorone]    [r=0.625,g=0,b=0] %dark red
> \definecolor  [colortwo]    [b=0.625,g=0,r=0] %dark blue
>
> \startsetups examtitle
> [...]
> \stopsetups
>
> \setvariables[exam][set={\setups[examtitle]}]
>
> \starttext
>
> \setvariables
>  [exam]
>  [ title=Mid-term 2010,
>   course=ES2917,
>     date={d=17,m=2,y=2010},
>    start={9:00 am},
>     stop={11:00 am}]
>
> \stoptext

Nice, I didn't realize that set key could be used this way.

If one is also interested in a usable XML export, then some 
\starttag..\stoptag must be added to the setups.

Aditya