Long heading alignment

Long heading alignment

[Paul Schalck]

Hello!

First, I want to thank you all. It's my first post here, but I've read many of your emails before, and I've already found a lot of solutions for my problems in there. I'm using Context intensely since several months (before, I was Latex) and at the moment, I'm setting my first big document (400 pages, very boring) with it.

My issue: I have a little problem with headings I can't solve by my own. It's rather simple: I would like to align headings that span across multiple lines on the left margin, like this:

a) This is (not really) a very, very, very
loooooooooooooooong title 

and not that way:

a) This is (not really) a very, very, very
   loooooooooooooooong title

The use of (\setuphead[section][command=\MySectionCommand] disables the standard alignment mechanism. I wonder if there is a simpler way to achieve this.

Any ideas? Thank you very much!

Scheeni Grieß (it's Alsatian German)
Paul
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Re: Long heading alignment

[Wolfgang Schuster]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:36:12 +0200
Paul Schalck <schickele@web.de> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> First, I want to thank you all. It's my first post here, but I've read many of your emails before, and I've already found a lot of solutions for my problems in there. I'm using Context intensely since several months (before, I was Latex) and at the moment, I'm setting my first big document (400 pages, very boring) with it.
> 
> My issue: I have a little problem with headings I can't solve by my own. It's rather simple: I would like to align headings that span across multiple lines on the left margin, like this:
> 
> a) This is (not really) a very, very, very
> loooooooooooooooong title 
> 
> and not that way:
> 
> a) This is (not really) a very, very, very
>    loooooooooooooooong title
> 
> The use of (\setuphead[section][command=\MySectionCommand] disables the standard alignment mechanism. I wonder if there is a simpler way to achieve this.
> 
> Any ideas? Thank you very much!
> 
> Scheeni Grieß (it's Alsatian German)
> Paul

Hi Paul,

the solution to you problem is very simple:

\def\MySectionCommand#1#2%
  {\vbox
     {\hsize\textwidth
       #1 #2}}

\setuphead
  [section]
  [command=\MySectionCommand]

\starttext

\section{\dorecurse{100}{foo }}

\stoptext

To learn more about this you can read the german book Einführung in TeX:
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/www-rz/schwanbs/TeX/

Wolfgang