Space before chapters

Space before chapters

[Jan Tosovsky]

Dear All,

after two hours of investigating wiki and various commands I am giving up...

Is there any way to set a bit of white space before my chapter title?

(1) I've thought that before={\blank[20mm]} should do the job. It works for
sections, but here I suspect it is ignored as my chapter start on a new
page.

(2) numbercommand=\groupedcommand{\blank[20mm]}{\blank[4mm]} - this works as
expected, but only for numbered titles - I need it also for TOC and Preface.

(3) commandbefore={\blank[20mm]} - it inserts the space between the number
and title 

I have no idea what else to try...

\setuphead[chapter][
   alternative=middle,
   %before={\blank[20mm]},
   %commandbefore={\blank[20mm]},
   numbercommand=\groupedcommand{\blank[20mm]}{\blank[4mm]},
   %numbercommand=\groupedcommand{}{\blank[4mm]},
]

\starttext
\startfrontmatter
\chapter{Intro}text
\startfrontmatter
\startbodymatter
\chapter{Chapter}text
\stopbodymatter
\stoptext

Any help is highly appreciated. 

Thanks, Jan

ConTeXt 2013.11.14 & Win 7

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Re: Space before chapters

[Hans Hagen]

On 11/19/2013 9:24 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> after two hours of investigating wiki and various commands I am giving up...
>
> Is there any way to set a bit of white space before my chapter title?
>
> (1) I've thought that before={\blank[20mm]} should do the job. It works for
> sections, but here I suspect it is ignored as my chapter start on a new
> page.
>
> (2) numbercommand=\groupedcommand{\blank[20mm]}{\blank[4mm]} - this works as
> expected, but only for numbered titles - I need it also for TOC and Preface.
>
> (3) commandbefore={\blank[20mm]} - it inserts the space between the number
> and title
>
> I have no idea what else to try...
>
> \setuphead[chapter][
>     alternative=middle,
>     %before={\blank[20mm]},
>     %commandbefore={\blank[20mm]},
>     numbercommand=\groupedcommand{\blank[20mm]}{\blank[4mm]},
>     %numbercommand=\groupedcommand{}{\blank[4mm]},
> ]
>
> \starttext
> \startfrontmatter
> \chapter{Intro}text
> \startfrontmatter
> \startbodymatter
> \chapter{Chapter}text
> \stopbodymatter
> \stoptext
>
> Any help is highly appreciated.

    before={\blank[force,20mm]},

whitespace at the top of a page is discarded otherwise

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Re: Space before chapters

[Jan Tosovsky]

On 2013-11-19 Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 11/19/2013 9:24 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> >
> > Is there any way to set a bit of white space before my chapter title?
> >
> > (1) I've thought that before={\blank[20mm]} should do the job. It
> > works for sections, but here I suspect it is ignored as my chapter 
> > start on a new page.
> >
> 
>     before={\blank[force,20mm]},
> 
> whitespace at the top of a page is discarded otherwise

I was hoping there is a simple option for this (any counterpart to XSL-FO
space-before.conditionality="retain" property)... And it is :-)

Thanks for a quick response. I'll keep this in mind.
 
Jan

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