Re: how to reuse float numbers?

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

2007/9/7, William S. <loumzie@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I am wondering if the float numbers can be reused for floats that are longer
> than a page. I use floats that contain program segments (source code) for
> a project report for my university studies.
>
> The guidelines specify that captions for code which is longer than one page
> or crosses page boundaries should be reprinted and the title changed to
> (continued).
>
> example:
>
> Program Segment 1.1: Hello World
>   #include <stdio.h>
>   main() {
>
> ...on next page...
>
> Program Segment 1.1: (continued)
>     printf("hello world!\n");
>   }
>
> Can someone help me do this in ConTeXt? I think I can do the splitting of
> the code myself if needed, but I don't know how to reuse the float number.
> Currently this is how I define the float:
>
> \definetyping[Program][blank=halfline]
> \definefloat[ProgramSegment][ProgramSegments]
> \setupcaption[ProgramSegment][location=top,align=right,headstyle=bold,style=bold,inbetween={}]
> \setuplabeltext[en][ProgramSegment=Program Segment ]
>
> And I use it like this:
> \placeProgramSegment[here]{Hello World}
> {
> \startProgram
> main() {
>   printf("hello world!\n");
> }
> \stopProgram
> }
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> William.

you can start with the following example from Hans.

\definefloat[Exhibit][table]
\starttext
\input tufte\par
\splitfloat[lines=auto]{\placeExhibit{Knuth}}
{\dorecurse{4}{\input knuth \par}}
\input tufte\page[yes]
\stoptext

Wolfgang
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