This is amazing! Thanks Wolfgang!

--Mohammad

On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

Am 14.03.2025 um 15:28 schrieb Mohammad Hossein Bateni:
> Hello,
>
> How can I clip long markings in the header?
>
> See this MNWE, where the two copies of section title collide on page 3.
>
> ---------------
> \starttext
> \setupbodyfont[20pt]
> \setupheadertexts[section][section]
> \section{One}
> \section{Two}
> \page
> \section{Three}
> \page
> \section{Long Title for Section Four}
> \page
> \section{Five}
> \stoptext
> ------------
>
> How can I clip the title to a fixed length (5cm?) and perhaps add "..."
> at the end for longer titles?

\setupheader[width=5cm]

Wolfgang

The width option of setupheader and the limitatetext command are both Procrustean solutions, chopping off without regard to the meaning of the result. Explicitly setting the text via the marking option of startsection is generally a better approach (in my opinion, of course). Even in an automated flow, it should be possible to specify a shorter alternative whenever a title is specified.

--
Rik