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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Setup narrower body text for sections
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 16:33:49 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1505141631510.69060@nqv-znpobbx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA36g0V7oLDWrJkh2mXmr28x+UGt=jg1kt_q5nuBHoT=AUKHMQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-14 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-14 16:16 Kate F
2015-05-14 20:29 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2015-05-14 20:33 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2015-05-14 21:01   ` Kate F

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