Thank you Taco. This is exactly what i needed! btw. I think I need to do layouts more often. What is good litterature about this subject? Boris From: Taco Hoekwater Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] help at layout Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:22:21 +0200

Boris Pedrofiets wrote:

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Hello, I want to make a layout where a vertical line is putted at the rigth of the left margin. Capters and paragraphs must indent in the left margin, and be boxed. Someting like:

The important trick is to define a special command that does the typesetting of the chapter number + text, I hope you're not too scared of low-level TeX, because in the actual example below I've added some low-level stuff to fiddle with the outdent.

This is the basic setup for the chapter command:

\setupcolors[state=start]

\def\Boxedchapter#1#2% {\framed[background=color, backgroundcolor=white]{#1.~#2}}

\setuphead[chapter][command=\Boxedchapter]

The color commands are needed so that the background of the chapter head overwrites the line in the margin. That line is a single command, btw:

\setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][state=start,rightframe=on]

Also, I've added a \blank in the example below so that a bit of the line sticks out above the framed text, that looks better, I think.

You can look up other options for \setupbackgrounds, \framed and \setuphead in http://texshow.contextgarden.net, or use your local 'texshow' command.

Greetings, Taco

% start \setupcolors[state=start]

\setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][state=start,rightframe=on]

\newdimen\outdentchapter

\outdentchapter=1cm % change this for more or less outdent

\def\Boxedchapter#1#2% {\advance\hsize\outdentchapter \vbox {\moveleft\outdentchapter \vbox {\blank[2*line] \framed[background=color, backgroundcolor=white]{#1.~#2}}}}

\setuphead[chapter][command=\Boxedchapter]

\starttext

\chapter{The first chapter}

\input knuth

\stoptext % end

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