On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Elliot Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been reading the Document Titles page on the wiki
>> <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Document_Titles>. I'm trying to better
>> understand how ConTeXt works. Could someone explain what
>> \doattributes does? It doesn't appear to be covered in the Inside
>> ConTeXt section of the wiki.
>
> \setupcolors[state=start]
>
> \starttext
>
> % \my..  : namespace
> % ..style: you could use any value defined with \definecolor
> % ..color: one of ConTeXt's font/style switching command like \bf, \ss, \tfa 
> ...

% \my..  : namespace
% ..color: you could use any value defined with \definecolor
% ..style: one of ConTeXt's font/style switching command like \bf, \ss, \tfa ...

> \def\mycolor{red}
> \def\mystyle{bold}
>
> \doattributes{my}{style}{color}{Red bold text.}
>
> \def\mycolor{green}
> \def\mystyle{\ss\tfb}
>
> \doattributes{my}{style}{color}{Green big text.}
>
> \stoptext
>
>> Also on the subject of Document Titles. Why is it that \setuptitle is
>> called several times at the end of the source code?
>
> The \setuptitle command is used to set the color and style for the
> elements and the version with one argument is used to set the text.
>
> \setuptitle
>  [\c!title]
>  [\c!style=\tfd,
>   \c!color=]
>
> Print the 'document title' in a bigger size.
>
> \setuptitle
>  [\c!author,\c!date]
>  [\c!style=\tfa,
>   \c!color=]
>
> Print the 'author name' and the 'date' in a slightly bigger size.
>
> \setuptitle
>  [\c!title=,
>   \c!author=,
>   \c!date=\currentdate]
>
> No content for the 'author' and the 'document title' by default but set
> the value 'date' to the current day.

Wolfgang
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