Setup narrower body text for sections

Setup narrower body text for sections

[Kate F]

Hi,

I'm typesetting unix manpages, where I want each section heading to be
outset slightly relative to the body text of that section. In other
words, I want the body text to have a left margin which is narrower
than the page width.

I know I can do this with something like:

    \startsection[title=Synopsis]
    \startnarrower
    blah blah blah
    \stopnarrower
    \stopsection

But I'd much rather set the left margin (or achieving the effect of
\startnarrower by some other means) using the setups for \startsection
instead. That way I won't need to have \startnarrower .. \stopnarrower
all over my document.

I tried \setuphead[section][margin=3cm] but the margin applies to the
heading, not to the body text of the section. Of course I could set
margin=-3cm and make the entire page narrower, but then I'd also need
to adjust the headers and footers to match.

I thought I could perhaps use before= and after=, but those are of
course before and after the heading, not before and after the body
text.

Is there a setup to wrap some commands around the body text?
Or must I define my own \startxyz .. \stopxyz thingy, or is there a better way?

Thanks,

-- 
Kate
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Re: Setup narrower body text for sections

[Pablo Rodriguez]

On 05/14/2015 06:16 PM, Kate F wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm typesetting unix manpages, where I want each section heading to be
> outset slightly relative to the body text of that section. In other
> words, I want the body text to have a left margin which is narrower
> than the page width.

Hi Kate,

a quick reply:

    %~ \setuphead[section][margin=-1cm]
    \setuphead[section][alternative=inmargin]
    \starttext
    \startsection[title=Synopsis]
    \input zapf
    \stopsection
    \stoptext

Doesn’t any option suit your needs?

I hope it may help,


Pablo
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Re: Setup narrower body text for sections

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Thu, 14 May 2015, Kate F wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm typesetting unix manpages, where I want each section heading to be
> outset slightly relative to the body text of that section. In other
> words, I want the body text to have a left margin which is narrower
> than the page width.
>
> I know I can do this with something like:
>
>    \startsection[title=Synopsis]
>    \startnarrower
>    blah blah blah
>    \stopnarrower
>    \stopsection
>
> But I'd much rather set the left margin (or achieving the effect of
> \startnarrower by some other means) using the setups for \startsection
> instead. That way I won't need to have \startnarrower .. \stopnarrower
> all over my document.

\setuphead[section][after={\startnarrower}, aftersection={\stopnarrower}]

Aditya
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Re: Setup narrower body text for sections

[Kate F]

On 14 May 2015 at 21:33, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 May 2015, Kate F wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm typesetting unix manpages, where I want each section heading to be
>> outset slightly relative to the body text of that section. In other
>> words, I want the body text to have a left margin which is narrower
>> than the page width.
>>
>> I know I can do this with something like:
>>
>>    \startsection[title=Synopsis]
>>    \startnarrower
>>    blah blah blah
>>    \stopnarrower
>>    \stopsection
>>
>> But I'd much rather set the left margin (or achieving the effect of
>> \startnarrower by some other means) using the setups for \startsection
>> instead. That way I won't need to have \startnarrower .. \stopnarrower
>> all over my document.
>
>
> \setuphead[section][after={\startnarrower}, aftersection={\stopnarrower}]
>
> Aditya
>

Thank you! That's exactly what I was hoping for!

aftersection= doesn't appear to be documented in cont-enp.pdf :)

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