Sorry. I don’t understand. If I use maxwidth (line 2 without the %), I 
get just one truncated line of the text. But I’d like to have all the 
text, somewhat indented on both sides, but not truncated.

But why is the text without maxwidth indented on the right?

Werner

On 28 Aug 2014, at 17:57, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> Am 28.08.2014 um 17:46 schrieb Werner Hintze <w.hintze@posteo.eu>:
>
>> Yes. I did. Before and now.
>>
>> But I think, writebetweenlist is not what I’m looking for. I try 
>> now with \writetolist[section] and to give the section list the 
>> desired format. That seems not easy, because the text now runs on the 
>> whole line, this means also in the region, where the page numbers 
>> are. It should terminate before, where the line of dots terminates or 
>> so. I see no parameter for this width seems ti be not the right one 
>> (it seems, width has no visible effect at all).
>>
> You can use the maxwidth key to set a limit for the width of the list 
> entry.
>
> \definelist[chaptertext]
> %\setuplist [chaptertext][maxwidth=8cm]
>
> \starttext
>
> \placelist[chapter,chaptertext]
>
> \chapter{This is a chapter}
>
> \writetolist[chaptertext]{}{\input ward }
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
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