Hi Wolfgang, Thanks a lot. Luckily, the publisher is asking for amazingly few alterations of the manuscript -- this was one to be expected. I bought Knuth's TeX book, but didn't have time to look into it -- I'll have to wait until I understand your solution. Cheers, Jörg Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:55:46 +0200 Jörg Hagmann wrote:

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Dear list members,

My section titles have a gray background of textwidth, as follows:

\def\SectionCommand#1#2{\framed[frame=off,width=\textwidth,% align=right,background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgray]{#1\quad#2}} \setuphead[section][command=\SectionCommand,numbercolor=red]

\def\SectionCommand#1#2% {\framed [frame=off, width=\textwidth, align={right}, background=color, backgroundcolor=lightgray] {\hbox to.05\textwidth{\strut#1}\quad \vtop{\hsize\dimexpr\hsize-.05\textwidth-1em\relax\begstrut#2 \endstrut}}}

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That works, except when section titles are longer than textwidth: in that case, the second line is aligned with the number, not the text. How can I get correct alignment? I tried to include \starttabulate \NC #1 \NC #2 \NC\NR \stoptabulate in SectionCommand, but then the background extends too much above and below.

I'm sure there is an easy solution? Thanks a lot, Jörg

Minimal example: \setupcolors[state=start] \def\SectionCommand#1#2{\framed[frame=off,width=\textwidth,% align=right,background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgray]{#1\quad#2}} \setuphead[section][command=\SectionCommand,numbercolor=red]

\starttext \section{A very long title, longer than the width of the text and therefore needing a second line} \stoptext

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