Re: \nomarking no working??

Hi JP,

Thanks and please see below.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 17:39 (+0200), Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context wrote:

> You are not doing anything wrong. The example on the wiki appears to be
> obsolete (If you have a look through the mailing list archives, you’ll see
> that Aditya notes that this command is obsolete...).

>>\nomarking{...}| belonged to an older interface. This was already discussed
> on the list in 2013, when Aditya explained that |\nomarking| and |\nolist|
> were no longer needed: the structured sectioning interface now lets us
> specify |title|, |marking|, |list|, and |bookmark| separately.

Mea culpa.  I did not look through the mailing list well enough.  More on
that below.

> So the current equivalent would be something like:

> \setupheadertexts[chapter]
> \starttext
> \startchapter
> [title={This title is long enough to cause problems in the headers and
> footers},
> marking={This title is long ...}]
> Here the whole title is used in the document, while the shorter
> `marking` is used for the header.
> \stopchapter
> \stoptext

Thank you for the example.

> The same issue actually came up again on the mailing list in March 2025,
> when |\nomarking| was found not to work with current ConTeXt.

I will admit to only using the "subject only" link on the \nomarking wiki
page.

> So I think this is a documentation problem rather than a problem with your
> input. The |\nomarking| wiki page should probably be revised or marked as
> obsolete (mais qui va faire ce job ?).

Je suppose que moi.  (As penance for not searching the mailing list archives
sufficiently well before invoking the power of [email protected]!)

Cheers.
                                Jim

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