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From: "Jan U. Hasecke" <juh+ntg-context@mailbox.org>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Let chapter start on odd page and make the even page before show an image
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 19:27:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9126a4d-3dc1-b5a2-5aed-19c2ee410910@mailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YAK.7.77.849.2005291152530.856860@nqv-guvaxcnq>

Am 29.05.20 um 18:03 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> The magic of loading and reusing them happens behind the scenes, so the
> user doesn't have to worry about it. See
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Key_Value_Assignments#Multi-pass_data
> for more details.
> 
> Now, suppose you wanted to use the image defined as part of
> `\startchapter` as the background image of the _current_ page, then you
> could access the value of the \structureuservariable. For example,
> 
> \startchapter[title=whatever][image=filename]
> 
> \structureuservariable{image}
> 
> \stopchapter
> 
> But you want to use the value of the image _before_ the start of the
> chapter. So, Wolfgang is using the two-pass mechanism to store the value
> of the image in the database named 'chapter` in the hash-location
> `\ChapterCounter` and then retrieving it before it is defined!

Thanks a lot for the clarification!
juh
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-29 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-29  8:29 juh
2020-05-29 10:45 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-05-29 13:10   ` Jan U. Hasecke
2020-05-29 13:35     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-05-29 15:42       ` Jan U. Hasecke
2020-05-29 16:03         ` Aditya Mahajan
2020-05-29 17:27           ` Jan U. Hasecke [this message]
2020-05-29 20:13             ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-05-29 20:18               ` Aditya Mahajan
2020-05-29 21:20                 ` Henning Hraban Ramm

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