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I would like to specify in advance that certain pages are to have different layouts, specifically, that the first page should have a bigger header than the rest of the pages pages.

Based on the Wiki article, this should be accomplished with something like:

% different layout for first two pages
\definelayout[1][wide]
\definelayout[3][reset]

However, when I put together my own MWE, it doesn't behave as expected. Rather than setting only the first page to have a big header, I somehow end up setting all pages to have a big header, except for the second.

\setuppapersize[A6]

\definelayout[bigheader][header=0.5\textheight]
\definelayout[smallheader][header=0.1\textheight]

\setuplayout[smallheader]
\definelayout[1][bigheader]
\definelayout[2][smallheader]

\starttext
\showframe
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\stoptext

output

Can someone explain what's going wrong?

I'm also aware of this solution but it seems overly complex for just setting the layout of the first page and that's it.

ssokolen
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    I don't know why this is happening, but if you remove the \definelayout[2][smallheadings] line, then the settings revert back to normal after page 1 – Aditya Aug 28 '19 at 16:38
  • @Aditya Thanks, that does seem to work for the MWE. I can't seem to reproduce my actual problem where the settings refuse to revert to default, but I guess \definelayout[2][smallheadings] isn't the way to go. – ssokolen Aug 29 '19 at 13:33
  • @Aditya Mind writing an answer? – Henri Menke Sep 07 '19 at 22:11

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I don't know why the code in the MWE is not working. One possible fix is to remove \definelayout[2][smallheadings]. For example:

\setuppapersize[A6]

\definelayout[bigheader][header=0.5\textheight]
\definelayout[smallheader][header=0.1\textheight]

\setuplayout[smallheader]
\definelayout[1][bigheader]

\starttext
\showframe
\input knuth
\input knuth
\input knuth
\stoptext
Aditya
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