From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Stretching chapter titles - MKII
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:53:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5A3116.1090707@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <011501cbcca9$ade0eed0$09a2cc70$@com>
On 15-2-2011 1:45, Tom wrote:
>
> Follows is some code that executes. The lines immediately following
> \starttext create a sample of the desired output format. However, I want to
> accomplish similar results for chapter titles via the passing of arguments
> containing the chapter title and number. Numerous attempts at that have
> resulted in abject failure. I am clearly missing something.
>
>
> \def\MyChapterCommand#1#2
> {\switchtobodyfont[ss,30pt]
> \hbox to \hsize {\stretched{Chapter\\One}}
> \blank[small]
> \switchtobodyfont[sansbold,20pt]
> \hbox to \hsize {\stretched{It\\Was\\The\\Best\\Of\\Times}}}
>
> \setuphead[chapter]
> [command=\MyChapterCommand,
> header=empty,footer=chapter,page=mychapterpagebreak,
> after={\blank[0.5in]},before={\blank[force,1.0in]}]
>
>
> \starttext
> \switchtobodyfont[sans,30pt]
> \hbox to \hsize {\stretched{Chapter\\One}}
> \blank[small]
> \switchtobodyfont[sansbold,20pt]
> \hbox to \hsize {\stretched{It\\Was\\The\\Best\\Of\\Times}}
>
> \chapter{It\\Was\\The\\Best\\Of\\Times}
> \input knuth
> \stoptext
you can try deepcommand=\stretched but as this macro does parsing and
lots of things can happen in titles there are no guarantees
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-15 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-15 0:45 Tom
2011-02-15 7:53 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-02-15 18:14 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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2011-02-12 17:12 Table of Contents issues Tom
2011-02-12 18:55 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-02-13 3:38 ` Using fonts from multiple families Tom
2011-02-13 9:59 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-02-13 20:40 ` Getting paragraphs to indent Tom
2011-02-13 20:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-02-16 14:06 ` Stretching chapter titles - MKII Tom
2011-02-16 14:14 ` Cedric Mauclair
2011-02-16 14:52 ` John McGarrachan
2011-02-16 15:20 ` Aditya Mahajan
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