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ConTeXt MkIV Sectioning

I’ve started the task of documenting the new \startchapter, \startsection etc. commands, based on my own experimenting and the email thread starting at http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg66341.html. These still don’t appear to be documented anywhere easy to find.

Please correct any inaccuracies or omissions; I’m new to ConTeXt and Wiki-editing. GKCJ 01:35, 18 June 2013 (CEST)


start/stop sectioning (maybe not useful nowadays)

Besides the traditional \chapter, \section etc. you can also use the more verbose, but also more flexible version of sectioning commands, these support tagged-PDF, XML and ePUB output better and also allow to insert code at the end of these sections.

Traditional Start/Stop
\part \startpart
\chapter \startchapter
\section \startsection
\subsection \startsubsection
\subsubsection \startsubsubsection
\title \starttitle
\subject \startsubject
... ...

Each of these start-commands has a corresponding stop-command to be used at the end of the section. For example:

  • \setuppapersize[A8]
    \starttext
    \section[sec:old]{Old Section}
    
    This is an old-style \ConTeXt\ section.
    
    \startsection
      [title={New Section},
       reference={sec:new},]
    
    This is a new-style section.
    
    \stopsection
    \stoptext
    

    produces

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