On 15 Jan 2014, at 21:54 , Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>

 wrote:

Am 15.01.2014 um 15:36 schrieb Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>:

Dear all,

Is there, in a book-project, a way to place unnumbered chapters, in casu Acknowledgements and Abstract, in the FrontMatter before the ToC, but still mentioned in the ToC?

\definehead[prechapter][chapter]
\setuphead [prechapter][number=no,incrementnumber=list]

\starttext

\prechapter{Unnumbered chapter}

\title{Contents}

\placelist[prechapter,chapter]

\chapter{Numbered chapter}

\stoptext

Wolfgang

Thank you Wolfgang. This works and it will very likely also work for my project. 

I'm afrraid though that I left out an important detail, namely that the ToC itself must be mentioned in the ToC.

What I'm expected to emulate is the following: (with real pagenumbers of course)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements i

Abstract ii

Contents iii

List of Illusttratiions iv

List of Tables v

Abbreviations and Library sigla vi

Preface vii

Chapter 1 8

Chapter 2 etc.

So my real question should have been: Is there a way to place the ToC in an unnumbered chapter, which should not be at the very beginning of the book? 

But you have suggested the answer already: Changing \title{Contents} to \prechapter{Contents} does just that. Clean solution for an, imho,  odd request.

Best regards,

Robert Blackstone

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