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From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Use a counter in a reference?
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:20:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <272b0156-cd72-896f-1a11-a6db8b2f4c5b@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6EB3A951-CA7A-4BED-8ECC-119E640EF440@kevinkenan.com>

On 4/13/20 10:13 PM, Kevin Kenan wrote:
> I have a need to tag elements in a text in a way that they are sequentially numbered and can have references to refer to them. Something like:
> 
> 
>      Here is some \tag[tagref]{\bf text} that is tagged.
>      .
>      .
>      .
>      Refer to tag \tagnumber[tagref] on page \at[tagref].
> 
> 
> What is the best way to do this in ConTeXt? I’ve got a counter for tag number, but I’m not sure how to use \reference so that it uses my tag number. For instance:
> 
> 
>      \definecounter[myTagCounter]
>      .
>      .
>      .
>      \reference[tagref]{\rawcountervalue[myTagCounter]}
> 
> 
> Doesn’t work. But perhaps I’m going about this incorrectly?
> 
> Thanks in advance!

Are you looking for this: 
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definelabel ?

HTH

Thomas
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-13 20:13 Kevin Kenan
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2020-04-19 12:39   ` Kevin Kenan

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