Re: help! how to get a part title?

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

> I looked in the docs, but there is no explicit discussion on setting 
> up parts formatting, and it's not intuitively obvious (at least to me) 
> how to apply the procedures for, say, sections (which are formatted by 
> default) to those for parts (which are not).

parts are formatted like any other sectioning commands.
Ok, it should be mentioned somewhere that "part" has no default setup.

>> \setuphead[part]
>> 		[style={\ss\bfc}, page=yes, number=yes,
>> 		placehead=yes, align=right,
>> 		before={}, after=\blank, header=empty]
>>
> For part 1, I get "Part 1..." at the top of the page, and text 
> (beginning with the first section) begins right after it.

That makes "after=\blank" (only one empty line after the part line; I 
needed that because the first chapter of a part should begin on the 
part page).

> For part 2, I get (as I was looking for) "Part 2..." on a separate 
> page, plus a blank page that follows, and then the sample chapter.

If you are not paper restricted (my book had to fit into a fixed page 
frame), you normally should use "page=right" and no "before" or "after".

> Just so I understand this, is this explained by some interaction 
> between the chapter setup commands, and the parts?

Maybe. Perhaps your chapter is defined with "page=right".
You didn't show us your chapter setup, and I can't find my cristal ball.

Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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