Thanks for trying, Bruce. That earlier question you refer to was for a similar situation and the answer resolved that one at the time (it was my question even then!) but not the precise one I am facing now. The problem, you see, is that \startalignment only offers a few key words like flushleft, middle etc. and not what I need this time, which is a precise indentation feature like .5cm. I suppose my real problem is not being sufficiently au fait with how definitions work. I just can't seem to get a definition that gives me a result like Chapter title    author ..................................... page number the \startalignment approach with flushleft would not give me the indentation obviously, and middle does not work for what I need, and either of them also pushes the page number line down onto the next line, which I don't want. I tried \skip .5cm, so: \define[1]\SectionTocEntry{% #1\crlf% title \hskip .5cm\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}% } But the \hskip is ignored at the beginning of a line. I wonder if there is something else I can substitute it for? Julian On 12/3/21 9:04 am, Bruce Horrocks wrote:

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On 11 Mar 2021, at 02:20, jbf wrote:

Hi list,

I have:

\define[1]\SectionTocEntry{% #1\crlf% title \doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}% }

which successfully gives me a ToC with:

Chapter title Author name

But I want the author name indented by .5cm and do not know how to use 'margin' in the above definition, or some other way of getting the indentation. I have tried various versions of 'margin' before the \doifnot part of the definition, but to no avail. There is a very similar previous question that might be what you are looking for. https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg97548.html

Try that but use 'flushleft' instead of 'middle'.

— Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

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It works, though I'm happy also to have Wolfgang's very simple version! I'm learning a lot! I'm a great believer in Occam's Razor - the law of parsimony, so the simpler version is the way to go, and my earlier use of a TeX hack (\-\) can be put to rest! Thanks Bruce and thanks Wolfgang. Julian On 12/3/21 11:51 am, Bruce Horrocks wrote:

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On 11 Mar 2021, at 22:22, jbf wrote:

Thanks for trying, Bruce. That earlier question you refer to was for a similar situation and the answer resolved that one at the time (it was my question even then!) but not the precise one I am facing now.

The problem, you see, is that \startalignment only offers a few key words like flushleft, middle etc. and not what I need this time, which is a precise indentation feature like .5cm. I suppose my real problem is not being sufficiently au fait with how definitions work. I just can't seem to get a definition that gives me a result like

Chapter title author ..................................... page number

the \startalignment approach with flushleft would not give me the indentation obviously, and middle does not work for what I need, and either of them also pushes the page number line down onto the next line, which I don't want. I tried \skip .5cm, so:

\define[1]\SectionTocEntry{% #1\crlf% title \hskip .5cm\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}% }

But the \hskip is ignored at the beginning of a line. I wonder if there is something else I can substitute it for? D'oh! Sorry - completely forgot about the indent.

Best I can come up with at the moment is this - but I'm not sure how to get leading dots.

\starttext

\define[3]\SectionToCEntry{ #2\crlf \leftaligned \bgroup \hskip 0.5cm \structurelistuservariable{author} \rightaligned \bgroup #3 \egroup \egroup }

\setuplist [chapter] [alternative=command, command=\SectionToCEntry, after=\endgraf]

\completecontent

\startchapter [title={This is my chapter title}] [author={Dummy Name}] \input Tufte \stopchapter

\stoptext

— Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

Re: indented line in TocEntry definition: I have come up with what is probably an inelegant solution (using \-\ so that \hskip is recognised at the beginning of a line), but it works! Maybe someone could suggest how to make it more elegant, but for the moment, it's all I need! \define[1]\SectionTocEntry{% #1\crlf% title \-\ \hskip .5cm\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}% } Julian On 12/3/21 9:04 am, Bruce Horrocks wrote:

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On 11 Mar 2021, at 02:20, jbf wrote:

Hi list,

I have:

\define[1]\SectionTocEntry{% #1\crlf% title \doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}% }

which successfully gives me a ToC with:

Chapter title Author name

But I want the author name indented by .5cm and do not know how to use 'margin' in the above definition, or some other way of getting the indentation. I have tried various versions of 'margin' before the \doifnot part of the definition, but to no avail. There is a very similar previous question that might be what you are looking for. https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg97548.html

Try that but use 'flushleft' instead of 'middle'.

— Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

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