On Thu, 13 Aug 2020, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> Aditya Mahajan schrieb am 13.08.2020 um 04:53:
> > On Thu, 13 Aug 2020, jbf wrote:
> > 
> > > Where running heads (headers) are concerned, if I use \chapter I have no
> > > problems, nor should I expect any. But because I am also using \title,
> > > given that I need some unnumbered chapters interspersed  among them, I
> > > run into difficulties with headers. Numbered chapters have the correct
> > > headers, unnumbered ones (with \title) either don't have them, or do not
> > > have the proper chapter header (they pick up the header from the
> > > previous numbered chapter).
> > > 
> > > At the moment the only thing I have in the preamble is the expected set
> > > of commands for the numbered chapters:
> > > 
> > >    [{\hfill\getmarking[chapter]\hfill}][]
> > >     [{\hfill\documentvariable{metadata:title}\hfill}][]
> > > 
> > > I thought that might work for the unnumbered ones (\title), thinking
> > > that maybe \title inherits from \chapter, but it doesn't. But no amount
> > > of variations on the above commands (repeating them but replacing
> > > 'chapter' with 'title'; adding [title] or just title, in the first set
> > > of commands in various positions...) gives me the correct result.
> > > 
> > > I am assuming, of course, that there is a solution to this difficulty,
> > > and that it may be simple. But I haven't found it. Is the problem that I
> > > am using \title in the main body to get my unnumbered chapters? I
> > > wouldn't think so? It produces the correct result, utlimatley, in the
> > > TOC, Is it possible that I may have something else in my preamble that
> > > is causing the problem? If so, I can't expect someone to 'guess' that
> > > from outside! But at the moment I don't think that is the problem.
> > > 
> > > If not a direct solution, are there any clues someone might give me that
> > > will lead me to finding my own solution? It would be much appreciated.
> > 
> > A rose by any other name would smell as sweet ...
> > 
> > \showframe
> > \setupheadertexts[\setups{header}]
> > 
> > \startsetups header
> >    \getmarking[chapter]
> > \stopsetups
> > 
> > \starttext
> > \startchapter[title={This is a chapter}]
> >    \input knuth
> >    \page
> >    \input knuth
> > \stopchapter
> > 
> > \startchapter[title={This is a title}, number=no]
> >    \input ward
> >    \page
> >    \input knuth
> > \stopchapter
> > \stoptext
> 
> Don't do this, unnumbered chapter still increase the counter and
> when you add another chapter afterwards you wonder why the number
> is wrong. 

(this reply is in jest ....)

incrementnumber=no, 

> The correct way here is to reset the marking entries
> at the begin of a new chapter or title with
> 
> \setuphead
>   [chapter,title]
>   [marking=reset]

Agreed. This is a better solution. Any idea why this is not the default?

Aditya