However, this is a workaround, another way of attacking it (it can be better, too, stylistically, as you can change the font independently): \setuphead [title] [textcommand=\uppercase]

And that works, thanks! --- The bad news is that now I have a lot more questions concerning the heading formatting. There are several parameters which can be used: style textstyle textcommand numberstyle numbercommand This is how I understand those (please, correct me when I am wrong). Let us assume we have a chapter heading saying "Chapter 1. Title" in the following examples: style=\bf -> {\bf Chapter 1.}{\bf Title} textstyle=\bf -> {Chapter 1.}{\bf Title} numberstyle=\bf -> {\bf Chapter 1.}{\bf Title} If I got it right this far, then I think I get these. The relevant parts of the heading are prepended with the given commands (whatever they then may be). But this mechanism does work only with the commands which change the style from that point onwards (e.g., \it, \tfx). What about the commands which take the text as a parameter (such as \cap{text})? And what are textcommand and numbercommand? I tried playing a bit with them. For example, \it or \bf can be put either as textstyle=\it or textcommand=\it. On the other hand, the \uppercase can be used only with textstyle. So, there is a difference as the name suggests (my initial guess was that the difference is exactly what I ask above, but doesn't seem to be so). Where on Earth is \uppercase explained? I tried looking for it in the manual -- in vain. I found some references to \uppercased which seems to be another beast. Thank you for your patience. If the stuff is not explained in other places, I can Wiki it once I understand it. - Ville