Dear All: I amhaving my own private warfare with the \setuphead command, and I wonder whether anyone can give me a hint. I have three problems, which I describe in detail below. They are: (1) how to setup run-in text after a subhead, (2) how to align the section, subsection, ... headers left or right (I am not talking of the running heads here) (3) vertical whitespace before a section header when it falls at the beginning of a new page What is *not* wanted :-) ==================== If the solution is use command=\mycommand, fine, I can do that. just please tell me that that's the only solution. I really am not asking about how to write a "Plain" or "LaTeX" command. Rather, what I'd like to know is if there is a ConTeXt-ish way to do these things, and by that I mean [something=something]. Description of my problems ========================== (1) At the Indiana Univ. Math. J. we use three levels of headings, let's call them \section, \subsection, and \subsubsection. The last two use run-in text. In Plain, the corresponding command might be something like this: \def\mysubsection#1{\vskip14pt\indent{\tenbfsl#1}.~} The outcome is this: My cat Inca. Inca is a beautiful black cat though she is now approaching her "golden" years. I could not come up with a [...=...] way to do run-in text after a heading. The only thing I did not try is something that occurred to me while walking to work - would this work? \setuphead[subsection][ after={\blank[none]} ] (2) Horizontal alignment. This problem is almost funny. Consider these two setups: \setuphead[section][ align=middle ] \setuphead[subsection][ align=left, ] The section will appear just fine, centered between the left and the right margins. The subsection head will appear flush RIGHT! If, instead, you write \setuphead[subsection][ align=right, ] the subsection head will appear flush LEFT. Hmmm... Hans, are you dyslexic? :-) (just in case, here comes another one :-)) I was able to obtain a subsection header as I wanted it by writing \setuphead[subsection][ align=left, command=\doglobal ] The problem is that, even though it works, I do not want to learn ConTeXt the wrong way. I do not want to "hack" it if there are set, orthodox ways to do what I want to do. (3) Plain TeX had some setup commands (have to re-acquaint myself with The TeXBook - have not done Plain in years) such that you could insert vertical whitespace before a section (subsection...) header, as wanted, but if in the course of writing that section header happened to fall at the top of a new page, then the vertical whitespace before it would be gobbled up. The reason is very simple: you do not want to have a "ragged top". My question is this: Is there any built-in thing like that in ConTeXt? Is there a command to "gobble up" vertical whitespace when a page break sends a heading to the top of the next page? Many thanks for any and all help. Best, elena (I wore thin the LiveContext interface this weekend - what a great thing to have!)