Re: [NTG-context] footer page number on first page of section: doesn't appear

[Lars Huttar]

On 12/4/2013 4:00 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Lars Huttar wrote:
>
>> On Dec 4, 2013 12:16:12 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>> ...
>>> This works only when your heading forces a page break with the
>>> “page=yes”
>>> setting in \setuphead.
>>
>> Thanks for this response.
>> Actually, we were able to get it to work as follows.
>>
>> First, we used
>> \definehead[section][chapter]
>> to get section to inherit some settings from chapter.
>> This included the "page=yes" setting you mentioned (which we don't want,
>> because we handle page breaks with some separate special logic); but it
>> also apparently includes some unknown magic that enables page numbers in
>> footers.
>>
>> Then we add "page=no" to the \setuphead[section] command, to override
>> the inherited "page=yes".
>> Apparently, it works:
>>
>> \definetext[footerpagenumber][footer][pagenumber]
>>
>> \definehead[section][chapter]
>>
>> \setuphead[section][page=no,header=empty,footer=footerpagenumber,number=no,align={middle,nothyphenated,verytolerant},style=ssbf]
>>
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \section{My Own Section}
>>
>> \dorecurse{15}{ \input knuth \par }
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
>> I would love to know what the default properties of the \chapter head
>> are, so we could know what we're inheriting, or how to set up section to
>> do what we want without inheriting unknown properties from chapter.
>
> (Untested): Looking at the code, it looks that any value other than
> page=, (i.e, page=empty) should work. Did you try the above example
> without the \definehead[section][chapter] line?
>
> Aditya

Uggh... I just tried it without the \definehead[section][chapter] line,
and it works! (I.e. there is a page number in the footer, only on the
first page of the section.) It wasn't working yesterday ... which makes
me wonder what else I changed since then.

Thanks,
Lars

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