On 15 Mar 2015, at 23:24, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
>> Am 14.03.2015 um 15:54 schrieb Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>:
>> 
>> I am running into two issues with my mkii-to-mkiv conversion project
>> 
>> - The \chapter command in mkiv uses more whitespace between the header and the first paragraph. How can I influence this?
> 
> The different space before the \chapter is caused by the “fixed” keyword for \blank
> which produce different result with MkII and MkIV and the MkIV behaviour need
> to be corrected.
> 
> The space after \chapter comes from your \writetolist entry and you can correct
> this with the \GotoPar command at the end of the entry as shown below.
> 
> %%%% begin example
> \showgrid
> 
> \setuphead[chapter][before={\blank[force,2*line]}]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \chapter{Knuth}
> 
> \writetolist[chapter]{}{}\GotoPar
> 
> \input knuth
> 
> \stoptext
> %%%% end example

Thanks. I tried this

% Every chapter starts with a quote on the LHS page:
\setuphead
  [chapter]
  [page=,
   before={\setups[chapter:before]},
   after={\setups[chapter:after]}]

\startsetups chapter:before
    \page[left]
    \noheaderandfooterlines
    \startalignment[left,nothyphenated]
	\startnarrower[4*left]
            \em \getbuffer[chapter:quote]
	\stopnarrower
    \stopalignment
    \resetsetups[quote:text]
    \page[right]
    \noheaderandfooterlines
    \blank[force,2*big]
\stopsetups

\startsetups chapter:after
    \blank[3*big]
\stopsetups

\definelist[chaptertext]
\setuplist[chaptertext][margin=1.3em,pagecommand=\gobbleoneargument]
\define[1]\ChapterAbstract{\writetolist[chaptertext]{}{\start\itx#1\stop}\GotoPar}


(Adding the \GotoPar at the end) but it did not had any effect. At one place (no chapter but an unnumbered title, it doesn’t work as well. Here I now have:

\title[h:grief1]{Intermezzo:\\
A short story about grief}
\writetolist[chapter]{}{Intermezzo: A Short Story about Grief}\GotoPar
\ChapterAbstract{A small fragment of a movie script that beautifully
illustrates the gap between the rational and the real.}

I changed it to 
\title[h:grief1]{Intermezzo:\\
A short story about grief}
\writetolist[chapter]{}{Intermezzo: A Short Story about Grief}\GotoPar
\ChapterAbstract{A small fragment of a movie script that beautifully
illustrates the gap between the rational and the real.}\GotoPar

And that works. So I changed it in another chapter to

\chapter[h:loosely]{Prologue:\\Loosely Coupled Spaghetti}
\ChapterAbstract{Starting with an example of how things can go wrong in a
current Business-IT landscape, we notice that these kinds of problems have
existed almost for as long as IT has existed, and that no proposed `silver
bullet' has ever solved them. The goal of the book is introduced.}\GotoPar

\placeinitial S{\kap{\bf uppose we}} have a system for the approval of loans. The
business logic has been put into a Business Rule Engine (BRE)
system\footnote{If you are not technical and terms like `application server',

But there it doesn’t. Apparently, I am still missing something. 

G


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> Wolfgang
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