Am 13.02.2011 um 18:29 schrieb Peter Münster:

> maggyero@gmail.com writes:
> 
>> How to control the space between the number and the title in heads? By default
>> it seems there is a space of about 1 em. I want to change that space and set a
>> normal space instead (a word space), since I've put a dot stopper after the
>> numbers (\setupheads[stopper=.]). Example:
>> 
>> 1.     Title (what I get)
>> 1. Title     (what I want)
> 
> % if you know how to get the width of 1 space:
> \setuphead[section][stopper=., distance=WidthOf1Space]

distance=\spaceamount

> % if you don't know, workaround:
> \setuphead[section][stopper=.~\strut, distance=0pt]
> 
> \starttext
> \startsection[title=test]
>  bla
> \stopsection
> \stoptext
> 
> Related question: is there a macro, that returns the width of some
> content, so that one can use "distance=\widthof{ }"?

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Wolfgang