Re: Chapter headings macro

[Devendra Ghate <devendra.ghate@gmail.com>]

On 02/08/2013 06:43 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 08.02.2013 um 07:31 schrieb Devendra Ghate <devendra.ghate@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have defined a macro for the chapter layouts -- nothing fancy, but still it is giving me trouble.
>> Essentially, I call this macro using *command=* in *\setuphead*. My philosophy was to add
>> all the details in the macro, so that I don't have to call anyother keyvalue pairs in *\setuphead*.
>> However, the macro gives two different results when called for typesetting a chapter heading
>> by ConTeXt internals and explicitly by me in the document (see attached file).
>>
>> I don't know why the chapter number font style is not obeyed. If I add *numberstyle=dfont* in
>> *\setuphead*, then the font size is increased but the frame size has spurious space at top and
>> bottom.
>>
>> When I call the macro myself, there is a single whitespace before the chapter heading (as can be
>> seen in the attached file).
>>
>> I have gone through the wiki as much as possible and I think that I could have easily copied
>> *much better* heading styles from it. But I do not want to use code that I don't fully
>> understand.
>>
>> Any suggestions/help will be most appreciated.
> \definefont [ChaperNumberStyle][Serif at 60pt]
> \definecolor[ChaperNumberColor][x=d8dcd6]
>
> \startsetups[head:devendra]
>
>    \startlinealignment[left]
>
>      \startframed
>        [frame=on,
>         rulethickness=3pt,
>         framecolor=ChaperNumberColor,
>         foregroundcolor=ChaperNumberColor,
>         corner=00]
>        \hspace[big]\headnumbercontent
>      \stopframed
>
>      \hspace[big]
>
>      \startframed
>        [width=.1\textwidth,
>         strut=no,
>         frame=on,
>         align={flushleft,nothyphenated,verytolerant}]
>        \headtextcontent
>      \stopframed
>
>    \stoplinealignment
>
> \stopsetups
>
>
> \defineheadalternative[devendra][renderingsetup=head:devendra]
>
> \setuphead
>    [chapter]
>    [alternative=devendra,
>     numberstyle=ChaperNumberStyle,
>     textstyle={\tfc\kap\kerncharacters[.5]}]
>
> \starttext
> \chapter{Introduction to thesis}
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
> _____

Thank you Wolfgang. I guess this is the proper ConTeXt way.

Presumably I will have to define a plain set up for unnumbered chapters 
like bibliographies
and call *\setuphead[chapter][alternative=plain]* for these chapters.

Devendra






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