On 8/2/2019 11:59 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 23:36:47 +0200
Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
we have a lot or areas ... and if you really want you can do this ...
\setuplayouttext
Has been there for ages ... (but I never use that method).
I has the same question a few years ago but I never used it
because it has a few limitations like missing style/color support.
I am looking for a simple and obvious way of setting header and footer
texts. The \setupheadertexts has limitations and I view this as
historical, for ConTeXt commands have evolved over time usually towards
better solutions, even if we leave in place for reasons of backward
compatibility habits that can be hard to quit.
What limitations? \foo[{sometext}] is not that different from
\foo[text={sometext}] and often I do
\setupheadertexts[\setups[header}]
\startsetups
lots of stuff
\stopsetups
because you don't want to add all kind of stuff in a value.
One example is \setuppapersize [page=letter,paper=letter]
(sorry, and I *do* much prefer A4).
This is, I believe, far superior to \setuppapersize [letter] [letter]
A matter of taste but we're not going to drop something ... that kind of
compatibility has always been a principle. If one has few docs it's no
problem to adapt a few styles but it's a no go otherwise (and I'm not
even speaking of adapting all kind of manuals, examples, etc etc.)
And for most of those commands there are k/v varianst too.
(\setuppapersize actually takes lists as page setups can be more complex
than just 'letter')
(But I'm willing to remove the command that I know you hate most, namely
{ {foo} \over {bar} }.)
Do you find that keys in \setupheader make sense? If so, what choice?
(as we like to limit the proliferation of key names).
\setupheader is used for styling and such, not for content.
Hans
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