I am struggling with getting the first pages of my chapters laid out as
desired. What I want on the top third of the page is a roughly 2 inch square
graphic on the left with the chapter number and chapter title on the right
in large print. The following chunk errors out as shown but works when
hard-coded.  Am I headed off in the wrong direction by trying to use columns
in this way? Previously, I tried treating the chapter number and title as
text with startfiguretext. It works but I can't format the chapter titles to
fit properly. Any suggestions for a ConTeXt beginner?
 
 
\def\ChapterTop#1#2{
    \startcolumns[n=2]
        \placefigure[left]{none}{\externalfigure[chief]}
    \column
         \switchtobodyfont[26pt] {\ss\bf\sl #1}
         \blank[large]\blank[large] 
          {\ss\bf #2}
     \stopcolumns}
 
\setuphead[chapter]
 [command=\ChapterTop, header=high,footer=pagenumber,page=center] 
 
\input c:. %chapter used to test the code
 
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