Thanks Wolfgang, The insidesection/aftersection options in \setuphead works well. I have been used the following way: \starttext \chapter{title of the chapter} \startcolumns \section{Introduction} \dorecurse{5}{\input davis\par} \section{Methods} \dorecurse{5}{\input davis\par} %.... \stopcolumns \stoptext I have read that the \start...\stop way of the commands are better for exporting  to another format like xml. On 1/18/19 2:23 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Lizardo M. Reyna Bowen schrieb am 18.01.19 um 19:42:

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Hi all,

I'm trying to use \startchapter...\stopchapter command to typeset  an article, I  need the title of the chapter in the entire \textwidth and the following parts  in two columns (from abstract to references). With \chapter command, it is not problem, but I can not do it with \start..\stop command.

Do you have a example where you use \chapter?

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Somebody knows how to do it ?

\setuphead   [chapter]   [insidesection=\startcolumns,    aftersection=\stopcolumns]

\starttext

\startchapter[title={Greenfield}] \dorecurse{10}{\samplefile{greenfield}} \stopchapter

\startchapter[title={Klein}] \dorecurse{10}{\samplefile{klein}} \stopchapter

\stoptext

Wolfgang

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