Re: Re: beginner question re: counters

[Matthew Huggett <mhuggett@zam.att.ne.jp>]

Patrick Gundlach wrote:

>Hi,
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>Matthew Huggett <mhuggett@zam.att.ne.jp> writes:
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>>>I apologize for asking such a basic question.  What is the correct way 
>>>to increment a counter such that each time a macro is used, the counter 
>>>is augmented by 1.  
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>>>
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>"Pawel Jackowski na Onet" <jackos1@poczta.onet.pl> writes:
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>>Hmmm... It can happens for many reasons. 
>>Try for instance
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>General remark (not really concerning this thread):
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>It would be nice if the original posters would comment answers like
>this one if this works fine or not. Since these mails are archived,
>other people might come across this post and wonder if this is a good
>solution or not. 
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>Just my $50^{-1}$ Euro
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>Patrick
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Yeah, the solution worked.  Just to recap:
What I wanted was a macro and counter such that each time the macro gets 
used the counter gets augmented + 1.
The solution was:
\newcount\MyCounter
\define[1]\MyMacro{
    \global\advance\MyCounter by 1 \relax
    \number\MyCounter #1}

\starttext
\MyMacro{Hello}
\MyMacro{Goodbye}
\MyMacro{Hello again}
\stoptext
--> 1Hello 2Goodbye 3Hello again

Matt