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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