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From: Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Distances between chapter and section titles	and	text
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:48:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F9D577DE-7799-4613-A185-A3E72754FA6F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.828.1408351435.2240.ntg-context@ntg.nl>


On 18 Aug 2014, at 10:43 ,  Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
wrote:
> 
> Am 18.08.2014 um 09:29 schrieb Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>:
> 
>> 
>> On 17 aug. 2014, at 20:06, <joshua.kraemer@gmail.com> wrot
>> 
>>> On 2014-08-15, 19:56, Robert Blackstone wrote:
>>> 
>>>> A few days ago I posted this question. There were no reactions, but
>>>> it is not an urgent matter for me anymore since I found an effective
>>>> work-around. (Although I still wonder whether or not this possibility
>>>> exists in mkiv,)
>>> 
>>> I have not seen the issue you have described myself.  The attached
>>> example works for me.  You have to prepare a minimal working example
>>> that shows the problem.  Maybe then somebody can identify the reason
>>> for your issue.
>>> 
>> 
>> But I have realized now, a bit late, that for real control over these distances one also needs to setup the section-head in a similar manner, additionally specifying the distance "before".
>> The presence or absence of Frontmatter does not influence results.
>> I think there must have been a setup command somewhere in my setups that I had forgotten about.
> 
> You?re forgetting that \section insert also a space before the text is placed. In a case where two commands insert a space at the same position like here the larger value is used which comes in the second chapter from the \section command.
> 
> Wolfgang
Thank you, Wolfgang. I was not forgetting what you describe. Worse, I had not taken any notice, just accepting the default distances as they appeared, which generally seemed OK.
I hope to be a bit ConTeXt-wiser now.

Kind regards,
Robert Blackstone
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     [not found] <mailman.828.1408351435.2240.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2014-08-19  8:48 ` Robert Blackstone [this message]
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2014-08-18  7:29 ` Robert Blackstone
2014-08-18  7:57   ` Wolfgang Schuster
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2014-08-15 17:56 ` Robert Blackstone
2014-08-17 16:16   ` Joshua Krämer

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