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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: \godown to an absolute position
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:56:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41E4216A.509@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41E41775.3090204@capdm.com>

Duncan Hothersall wrote:
> Hello. I have a style request that I haven't come across before and 
> don't know how to handle in ConTeXt.
> 
> I need the first line of text following a chapter title to always start 
> 15 picas from the top edge of the text area. In other words, no matter 
> how little space the title takes up, the first line after it should 
> always start at the same vertical point.
> 
> Something like
> 
> -- 
> \chapter{Chapter title}
> \godown[to=15pc]
> Start of the text of the chapter...

quick and dirty:

\setuphead[chapter][before=\vbox to 10cm\bgroup,after=\vss\egroup]

\starttext

\chapter{test} \input tufte
\chapter{test\endgraf test} \input tufte

\stoptext

there are other solutions (synchronizing stuff) but that's more complex

Hans


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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2005-01-11 18:14 ` Duncan Hothersall
2005-01-11 18:56   ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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2005-01-12 11:42 ` Duncan Hothersall

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