At 05:16 PM 3/4/2003 +0100, you wrote:

Hi all,

I'm using private macro for title of section:

\setuphead[section][command=\doTitle]

and if I typeset inside this \doTitle#1#2 something like (test code):

\vbox to 0pt{ \hsize=3cm \hbox{\vtop{#1}\vtop{#2}} \hbox{\vtop{X} \vtop{The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.}} \vss }

I get two boxes -- the first (made from #1 and #2) NOT aligning the first lines of vtop's (#1 is higher) and the second, which is aligned as I expect -- both "X" and "The quick..." in the one "line".

So I traced data coming into #2 and content of \vtop filled with it and I saw the #2 contains some vertical glue at the beginning.

What should I do to avoid this behaviour? (excluding splitting of the resulting box using low level TeX primitives :-),

have a nice day and thanks,

\showstruts \def\doTitle#1#2% {\ruledvbox {\forgetall \hsize=4cm \ruledhbox{\ruledvtop{#1}\ruledvtop{\noindent#2}}}} try this with and without \noindent The interfering factor is (are) a couple of write nodes needed for the list. I'll see if i can make a workaround (quite dangerous to path such code; has to do with timing, so i've now made \chardef\headtimingmode=1 for testing purposes) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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 ----- \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 ------