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