Thanks for the bits and pieces to the puzzle. I'll do my best to make
sense of them and solve the problem.
Julian
On 19/3/22 20:18, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
Hi Julian,
you’re right, the example didn’t do what you wanted, and it didn’t
intend to.
Using \getmarking you can
Hi Willi,
How about invoking the command \setups{Thumb-pictures} between a \start \stop
pair as in the following:
\showframe
\starttext
\startfrontmatter
\startchapter[title=Test A]
\samplefile{knuth}
\stopchapter
\stopfrontmatter
%\page[yes]
\start
\setups{Thumb-pictures}
\startbo
Hello,
I am a little desperate… I have installed in a new directory the latest version
of ConTeXt.
I run the sample file I provided before. After enabling a second
chapter-section before the \setups{Thumb-picture} the metafun error reoccurs. —
Looking at the log I do net get really wiser, lack
Hello Otared,
thanks so much for your testing and comments. — Tthe problem is, that this
thumb-picture should only be placed in the \startboydmatter..\stopbodymatter
sections. In the case of this book however there are the title pages and quite
some text including the TOC in the \startfrontmatt
Hi Willi,
Your test file works fine if I place
\setups{Thumb-pictures}
before \starttext (using version 2022.03.12 17:56 LMTX).
However in the file you sent the choice of the command
\setups{Thumb-pictures}
is between chapter A and B, which seems starnge to me...
Best regards: Ot
On 3/19/2022 10:18 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
BTW, I can’t remember when you need \structurevariable vs.
\namedstructurevariable...
the first is the current, the second a specific one ... so current can
be subsubsubsubsubsection but with named you can still get the current
Hi Julian,
you’re right, the example didn’t do what you wanted, and it didn’t
intend to.
Using \getmarking you can get a section title (or another “mark”), you
can’t combine it with the variable commands, and you don’t need it for
your case.
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/getmarkin
On 3/18/2022 8:29 PM, Willi Egger via ntg-context wrote:
Good evening!
I have a dictionary where I would like to include thumb-pictures in the margin.
— When I use the attached code with a single \startchapter...\stopchapter, it
works. However if I add another \startchapter…\stopchapter before