Re: help at layout

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Boris Pedrofiets wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to make a layout where a vertical line is putted at the rigth of 
> the left margin. Capters and paragraphs must indent in the left margin, 
> and be boxed.
> Someting like:

The important trick is to define a special command that does the
typesetting  of the chapter number + text, I hope you're not too
scared of low-level TeX, because in the actual example below I've
added  some low-level stuff to fiddle with the outdent.

This is the basic setup for the chapter command:


   \setupcolors[state=start]

   \def\Boxedchapter#1#2%
     {\framed[background=color,
              backgroundcolor=white]{#1.~#2}}

   \setuphead[chapter][command=\Boxedchapter]


The color commands are needed so that the background of the
chapter head overwrites the line in the margin. That line
is a single command, btw:

   \setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][state=start,rightframe=on]


Also, I've added a \blank in the example below so that a bit
of the line sticks out above the framed text, that looks
better, I think.


You can look up other options for \setupbackgrounds, \framed and
\setuphead in http://texshow.contextgarden.net, or use your local 
'texshow' command.


Greetings, Taco


% start
\setupcolors[state=start]

\setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][state=start,rightframe=on]

\newdimen\outdentchapter

\outdentchapter=1cm % change this for more or less outdent

\def\Boxedchapter#1#2%
    {\advance\hsize\outdentchapter
     \vbox
       {\moveleft\outdentchapter
        \vbox
           {\blank[2*line]
            \framed[background=color,
                    backgroundcolor=white]{#1.~#2}}}}

\setuphead[chapter][command=\Boxedchapter]

\starttext

\chapter{The first chapter}

\input knuth

\stoptext
% end