Jeroen Heijmans wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to ConTeXt, but so far most things I wanted to do turned out to be quite easy. However, now I'm trying to make a particular section heading, but I can't get it right:

|---------------------------------------------| | SECTION HEADING Key 1 Value 1 | | Key 2 Value 2 | | Key 3 Value 3 | | Key 4 Value 4 | | Text Key 5 Value 5 | |---------------------------------------------|

Or in text, a box containing a section heading in the left top, some additional text in the left bottom, and a table with pairs of values on the right side of the box.

Getting a box with a section heading and some text was easy enough, but I couldn't get the table where and how I wanted it. I also tried to do all of it in a table, but I got errors when trying to put a \section in the table. Any suggestion on how to do this will be highly appreciated.

rough approach \setvariables [chapter] [title=, text=] \startsetups chapter:reset \dorecurse {10} { \setvariables[chapter][key-\recurselevel=,value-\recurselevel=] } \stopsetups \startsetups chapter:make \setbox 0 = \vbox { \framed [align=normal,offset=overlay,frame=off] { \setuptabulate[before=,after=] \starttabulate[|l|l|] \dorecurse {10} { \doifsomething{\getvariable{chapter}{key-\recurselevel}} { \expanded { % first one not expanded anyway \NC \getvariable{chapter}{key-\recurselevel} \noexpand \NC \getvariable{chapter}{value-\recurselevel} \noexpand \NC \NR } } } \stoptabulate } } \setbox 2 = \hbox { \framed [align=normal,offset=overlay,frame=off] { \strut \getvariable{chapter}{title} } } \setbox 4 = \hbox { \framed [align=normal,offset=overlay,frame=off] { \strut \getvariable{chapter}{text} } } \ifdim \dimexpr\ht2+\ht4+\lineheight\relax < \ht0 \edef\ChapterHeight{\the\ht0} \else \edef\ChapterHeight{\the\dimexpr\ht2+\ht4+\lineheight\relax} \fi \definelayer[chapter] \setuplayer[chapter][width=\textwidth,height=\ChapterHeight,offset=.5ex] \setlayer[chapter][preset=righttop] {\box0} \setlayer[chapter][preset=lefttop] {\box2} \setlayer[chapter][preset=leftbottom]{\box4} \framed[offset=overlay]{\tightlayer[chapter]} \setups[chapter:reset] \stopsetups \setups[chapter:reset] \starttext \setvariables [chapter] [title={some title}, text={some text}, key-1=bla, value-1=whow, key-2=more bla, value-2=more whow] \setups[chapter:make] \input tufte \setvariables [chapter] [title={another title}, text={another text}, key-1=bla bla, value-1=whow whow, key-2=less bla, value-2=less whow] \setups[chapter:make] \input tufte \setvariables [chapter] [title={another title}, text={another text}, key-1=bla bla, value-1=whow whow, key-2=less bla, value-2=less whow, key-3=bla bla, value-3=whow whow, key-4=less bla, value-4=less whow] \setups[chapter:make] \input tufte \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------