Re: [NTG-context] memoir-style chapter heading

2020-08-18 Thread jbf
Thank you Otared. The power of ConTeXt never ceases to amaze me, though despite the excellent work done on the wiki recently, it is the little things like the use of \raise that could be better described, especially in a range of applied instances. We find it, combined with hbox, in reference

Re: [NTG-context] memoir-style chapter heading

2020-08-18 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Julian, Indeed you can modify slightly what Aditya said to obtain what you want: you can put the overlay into a framed environment as in the following example. Though, to my taste the number is a little bit too low… %% begin example \setuppagenumbering[state=start,location=footer]

Re: [NTG-context] memoir-style chapter heading

2020-08-17 Thread jbf
I meant to include an example of what I mean, since at least it seems to work (am including just the definition part of your example), So at least I can get middle and right alignment. \define[2]\MemoirChapter  {\midaligned{\startoverlay   {#1}   {#2}     \stopoverlay}} Julian On

Re: [NTG-context] memoir-style chapter heading

2020-08-17 Thread jbf
Thanks Aditya. The 'quick and simple' explanation below helps me to grasp some concepts I had not been clear about earlier. While you say that overlays 'don't allow tuning' for positioning, is this only in terms of absolute positioning? It would be so helpful if we could get at least a middle

Re: [NTG-context] memoir-style chapter heading

2020-08-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020, jbf wrote: > Am completely new to using Metafun, which I presume I would need to use > to achieve a Hansen Memoir-style Chapter heading (chapter title > overlayed on a large lightgray number). Of course, I am assuming I would > need to use Metafun to create this... > > So

[NTG-context] memoir-style chapter heading

2020-08-16 Thread jbf
Am completely new to using Metafun, which I presume I would need to use to achieve a Hansen Memoir-style Chapter heading (chapter title overlayed on a large lightgray number). Of course, I am assuming I would need to use Metafun to create this... So my first question is to ask if I could