On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 26.01.2012 um 03:41 schrieb Peter Park Nelson:
>
>> First-page layout is an issue that I have asked about before, but
>> maybe I am doing something wrong. Here is my question in an earlier
>> thread:
>> http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20111228.041922.c60f9cd5.en.html.
>>
>> I want to define a layout for the first page of my document with
>> different header and footer formatting -- specifically, no header and
>> a large footer to hold publication information. Based on examples on
>> Contextgarden and this list, I think my code below is correct.
>> However, the first page formatting is continued on all pages of the
>> document. The effect is the same when using \definelayout[first] and
>> \definelayout[1].
>
> Is MkIV a option for you? The problem had been there for a while as well but
> now it’s fixed
> you can decide what ConTeXt should do after the first page.
>
> With the “state” you can control whether the layout at the second page should
> be switched
> back to the global layout with \definelayout[…][state=start] (this is the
> default setting) or
> it should remain with \definelayout[…][state=repeat].
>
>> \definelayout
>> [first]
>> [width=middle,
>> backspace=15mm,
>> topspace=10mm,
>> height=254mm,
>> header=0mm, % no header
>> headerdistance=0mm,
>> footer=25mm, % big footer
>> footerdistance=5mm,
>> grid=yes]
>
> You have to set only what’s different from the global layout.
>
> \definelayout
> [first]
> [header=0mm,
> headerdistance=0mm,
> footer=25mm,
> footerdistance=5mm]
>
> Wolfgang
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Wolfgang and Wagner, thank you for taking the time to respond to this.
I am using MkIV. I just updated to the latest beta (I had been running
one beta behind). I was intentionally not using layout inheritance in
my \definelayout commands to eliminate the possibility of a problem in
the inheritance mechanism.
Interaction with columnsets also seems to be part of the problem, as I
will try to explain.
1. In a layout with no columnset: \definelayout[first] creates a
unique layout for the first page and returns to the default layout on
page 2. BUT from page 3 onwards, the text does not go all the way to
the bottom of the text area (although \showframe indicates that the
text area is correct). A workaround is to add
\definelayout[current][...parameters that undo the first-page
parameters...].
2. In a layout with a columnset
(\definecolumnset[body][n=2,balancing=yes]): use of
\definelayout[first] causes failure with the error message below.
Ignoring warnings and forcing Context to continue results in a pdf
with \showframe lines drawn correctly, but text not filling the whole
column height, as described previously.
#################
ERROR MESSAGE:
system > tex > error on line 70 in file J2-pagearea.tex:
Emergency stop ...
60 [footer]
61 [footer]
62
63 \starttext
64 \showframe
65 \showgrid
66
67
68 \startcolumnset[body]
69
70 >> \dorecurse{40}{\input tufte \par }
71
72 %\input tufte \par
73
74 \stopcolumnset
75
76 \stoptext
77
\OTRSETdoifcellelse ...er #1:\number #2\endcsname
\@EA \secondoftwoarguments...
\@@ar@@3 ...ellelse {\mofcolumns }\columnlastcell
{\global \advance \columnl...
\redoloop ->\expandrecursecontent
\endofloop
<to be read again>
{
<inserted text>
44
\endofloop ...expr \recurselevel +\plusone \relax
}
...
l.70 \dorecurse{40}{\input tufte \par }
End of file on the terminal!
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
--
Peter Park Nelson
peter.park.nel...@gmail.com
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