Re: Using command in section

[Guy Worthington <guyw@multiline.com.au>]

Martin Kolaøík wrote:

> I'm using private macro for title of section:

Sometimes I get so cross with ConTeXt, and that's because, like you,
when stuck, I run to "The TeXbook" and not to "ConTeXt the manual".

Only a fortnight ago, I was facing your exact problem and wasted
several hours making a solution for a non-existant problem.  So, in
the hope that you can profit from my bitter experience, here's what I
advice:

  1) Go to the ConTeXt manual, 

  2) Look up '\setuphead' in the index, 

  3) Encapsulated within the handful of pages, following the index
     reference, is the solution to your exact problem laid out, step
     by step.  (It's also a good introduction into the methodology
     used in the ConTeXt interface.)

I'm only guessing that you want your section header looking like:

   X     The Quick Brown 
         Fox Jumped Over 
         The Lazy Dog

and using that assumption, I had a go at translating that into ConTeXt

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\setuphead[section]
	  [command=\doTitle]

%% \def\doTitle#1#2{%
%%   \vbox to 0pt{
%%     \hsize=3cm
%%     \hbox{\vtop{#1}\raise\lineheight\vtop{#2}}
%%     \vss}}

\def\doTitle#1#2{%
  \hbox to 3cm \bgroup
    \hfill
    \setupframed [offset=.5em, frame=off]
    \tbox{\framed [width=1.5cm, align=right]{#1}}%
    \tbox{\framed [width=3cm, align=right]{#2}}%
  \egroup}

\starttext

\section A Day in the Life of the Quick Brown Fox

\stoptext

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