Dear All:
I amhaving my own private warfare with the \setuphead command, and
I wonder whether anyone can give me a hint. I have three problems,
which I describe in detail below. They are:
(1) how to setup run-in text after a subhead,
(2) how to align the section, subsection, ... headers left or right
(I am not talking of the running heads here)
(3) vertical whitespace before a section header when it falls at the
beginning of a new page
What is *not* wanted :-)
====================
If the solution is use command=\mycommand, fine, I can do that. just
please tell me that that's the only solution. I really am not asking
about how to write a "Plain" or "LaTeX" command. Rather, what I'd like
to know is if there is a ConTeXt-ish way to do these things, and by
that I mean [something=something].
Description of my problems
==========================
(1) At the Indiana Univ. Math. J. we use three levels of headings, let's call
them \section, \subsection, and \subsubsection. The last two use run-in
text. In Plain, the corresponding command might be something like this:
\def\mysubsection#1{\vskip14pt\indent{\tenbfsl#1}.~}
The outcome is this:
My cat Inca. Inca is a beautiful black cat though she is now
approaching her "golden" years.
I could not come up with a [...=...] way to do run-in text after a
heading. The only thing I did not try is something that occurred to
me while walking to work - would this work?
\setuphead[subsection][
after={\blank[none]}
]
(2) Horizontal alignment. This problem is almost funny. Consider these
two setups:
\setuphead[section][
align=middle
]
\setuphead[subsection][
align=left,
]
The section will appear just fine, centered between the left and the
right margins. The subsection head will appear flush RIGHT! If, instead,
you write
\setuphead[subsection][
align=right,
]
the subsection head will appear flush LEFT. Hmmm... Hans, are you dyslexic?
:-) (just in case, here comes another one :-))
I was able to obtain a subsection header as I wanted it by writing
\setuphead[subsection][
align=left,
command=\doglobal
]
The problem is that, even though it works, I do not want to learn ConTeXt
the wrong way. I do not want to "hack" it if there are set, orthodox ways
to do what I want to do.
(3) Plain TeX had some setup commands (have to re-acquaint myself with
The TeXBook - have not done Plain in years) such that you could insert
vertical whitespace before a section (subsection...) header, as wanted,
but if in the course of writing that section header happened to fall
at the top of a new page, then the vertical whitespace before it would
be gobbled up. The reason is very simple: you do not want to have a
"ragged top". My question is this: Is there any built-in thing like
that in ConTeXt? Is there a command to "gobble up" vertical whitespace
when a page break sends a heading to the top of the next page?
Many thanks for any and all help. Best, elena (I wore thin the
LiveContext interface this weekend - what a great thing to have!)
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