2012-11-08 Bill Meahan:
I note there are two different ways of handling a chapter:
The traditional \chapter{mytitle}
\startchapter[title=mytitle, ownnumber=N ..] blah \stopchapter
Is there any difference or advantage/disadvatage to using one method or the other?
With the start…stop syntax you can easily apply different options to the individual structure elements or add additional information. The \chapter syntax is less verbose but less flexible. But it has at least one caveat that I know: The insidesection key of \setuphead does not work.
Other than the source code, is there anything that lists the keys for \startchapter somewhere?
Keys that I know about: \startchapter[ label=..., title=..., marking=..., list=..., bookmark=..., reference=... ] \stopchapter You can also add an additional pair of brackets with custom settings: \startchapter [title={First chapter}] [foo=bar] \stopchapter In the setups this information is accessible as: \structureuservariable{foo}
It's not documented in even the most recent command reference.
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