Hello, [...]
hope this back and forth will not be just a waste, but something out of which we can both/all learned to improuve.
I think so, too. It has been a long time since I used ConTeXt. So I have to refresh my rusty knowledge :-)
"define your own command" , but you have to know THE (default) command fist, otherwise it is hard to obtain a result (.pdf) from something that is not just a copy of someonelse .tex
Right, but I'd guess that the default command is quite tricky. All ConTeXt commands are quite tricky.
\def\HeadTitle#1#2{\hbox to \hsize% {\hfil% {#1#2}\hfil}}
\setuphead [chapter] [command=\HeadTitle]
\starttext \chapter{ciao} \stoptext
the two ex-s are not the same , because spacing between the number and the title and allignment, why?
There is no horizontal "space" command between #1 (number) and #2 (title). But "space" is not just a simple " ". It can be many things. I don't know if there is any good reading about these kind of spaces, but let me show you a few: ( ) regular space is pretty small, but can be stretched \enspace fixed space 0.5em \enskip space .5em (so called "skip") \quad space 1em " \qquad space 2em " \kern xx space xx \hfil, \hfill "very long" and "very very long" space
Moving your howto overlay example, indeed very useful, from subject to chapter seems to me more subtle than just changing section names
It is more a matter of section numbers/no section numbers. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net List archive: http://archive.contextgarden.net