On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> Am 27.02.2012 um 02:47 schrieb Rogers, Michael K:
>>
>> On Feb 26, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Marc Trius wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to format a chapter heading so that there is a linebreak between the number and the name. The only way I managed to do this is this:
>>>
>>>
>>> \setuphead[
>>> chapter][command=\ChapTitle]
>>> \def\ChapTitle#1#2%
>>> {\framed[height=2cm,width=broad]{#1\\#2}
>>> }
>>
>>
>> This worked for me:
>>
>> \def\ChapTitle#1#2{\framed{\vbox{\startalignment[center]#1\par#2\stopalignment}}}
>
> \define[2]\ChapTitle
>  {\framed[width=broad,align=middle]{#1\\#2}}
>
>> I don't know if \vbox's are frowned on in ConTeXt, but my fix doesn't work if you remove it.  I've just started migrating from Plain Tex to ConTeXt, so please excuse a naive response.
>
> Special layouts for the headings requires sometimes \vbox and \hbox but in this case you don’t need it.

Well, \framed[...,align=middle,...] is a \vbox.

Aditya