Re: A \part command for ConTeXt

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, TeXWorld wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> In latex, there is the \part command. If my memory is good, this command
>> is available only in the book class (and maybe report).
>> Is there an equivalent command in ConTeXt ?
> 
> Yes, it is called \part :)
> 
> Actually, \part does not work out of the box, you need to do
> 
> \setuphead[part][placehead=yes]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \part {Something important}
> 
> \input tufte
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> Hans, why is \part defined with placehead=no?

because in most cases there is a more fancy sthing needed than just a 
part title; also, we don't want 0.1 as chapter number when we don't use 
parts

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