Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> for some reason I have always been using standardmakeup for separating
> chapters in slides (I don't know if that's a good idea or not), but
> this fails:
> 
> \setupcolors
>       [state=start]
> \setuphead
>       [chapter]
>       [page=yes,
>        number=no,
>        command=\mychaptercommand]
> \setuphead
>       [section]
>       [page=yes,
>        number=no]
> \def\mychaptercommand#1#2{%
>       \bgroup
>       \startstandardmakeup
>       \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=blue] % 
> doesn't work
>       \switchtobodyfont[30pt]{#2}
>       \stopstandardmakeup
>       \egroup}
> 
> \starttext
> \chapter{Chapter}
> 
> \section{Section} % starts on the first page
> \input tufte
> \stoptext
> 
> I have now used
> 
> \def\mychapter#1#2{%
> % the only way to make background color work
> \page\bgroup
> \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=blue]
> \startstandardmakeup
> \switchtobodyfont[30pt]{#1: #2}
> \stopstandardmakeup
> \egroup}
> 
> as a workaround, but I wonder: is my first attempt something that's
> simply forbidden to use or did I use it in a wrong way?

just keep in mind that makeups are just vboxes, and that the chapter 
commands does quite some things,

page=,before=\startstandardmakeup,after=\stopstandardmakeup

may be a safer way

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