behavior of counter - bug or feature?

[Thomas A.Schmitz <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

Hi all,

though I'm not 100 \% certain, I think this behavior came up in the 
latest release of ConTeXt. For my manuscripts for talks, I have defined 
a nice little counter like this

\newcounter\slidecounter

\define\sln{\increment\slidecounter \color[red]{[\slidecounter]} }

which allows me to just type \sln when I want to mark a spot where I 
want to show a new slide, and it will give the number in red, between 
brackets. OK, this has been working for quite a while, but recently, I 
have observed a strange behavior: if I use the command within an 
itemize-group, it will count normally, but after the \stopitemize, the 
counter will be reset to the value before the itemization. I can't 
swear to it, but I'm reasonably certain that this wasn't the case 
before. Is it possible that something was broken, Hans?

Best wishes (especially to our new fellow-citizens)

Thomas