Re: Overriding the number on a float

[Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>]

Hi,

If there are a few special numberings of floats, and one wants floats numbered 1.6a and 1.6b, the following seems to work:

Best regards: Otared

%%% begin ownnumber-in-floats.tex
\useMPlibrary[dum]

\starttext

\startsection[title=One]
\startplacefigure[title=Test]
\externalfigure[dummy]
\stopplacefigure
\stopsection

\startsection[title=Two]
\startplacefigure[title=Test]
\externalfigure[dummy]
\stopplacefigure
\stopsection

\setcounter[figure][5] % next figure is no.6

\startsection[ownnumber=10,title={A section}] 
\start
\setupcaptions[numberstopper={a}]
\startplacefigure[title=Test figure]
\externalfigure[dummy]
\stopplacefigure
\stop
\stopsection

\setcounter[figure][5]

\startsection[ownnumber=11,title={Another section}] % ownnumber doesn’t work
\start
\setupcaptions[numberstopper={b}]
\startplacefigure[title=Test another figure]
\externalfigure[dummy]
\stopplacefigure
\stop

\startplacefigure[title=Test another figure]
\externalfigure[dummy]
\stopplacefigure

\stopsection

\stoptext
%%% end ownnumber-in-floats.tex

> On 24 Aug 2020, at 19:37, Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 24.08.2020 um 17:36 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>:
>> 
>> Henning Hraban Ramm schrieb am 24.08.2020 um 15:29:
>>>> Am 23.08.2020 um 11:25 schrieb Duncan Hothersall <dh@capdm.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> I think there was a question on this very recently but I don;t think it got an answer and I can't find it to reply to, so apologies for the extra noise. I have a large text with floats numbered sequentially by chapter and then figure/table number, but at the last minute I've had a request for two figures in a particular chapter to become 27.1a and 27.1b instead of 27.1 and 27.2. It's not a combination - they are separate figures on different pages.
>>>> 
>>>> I've experimented with the options I can see, but it's not obvious if there is a facility to override the numbering of two figures in a stream of normally numbered figures like this. I was thinking of the equivalent of the old \sym{symbol} command that used to work as a way to override a single item in an otherwise sequential list.
>>>> 
>>>> I guess there's a brute force method of setting up a new type of figure with the label "Figure 27.1" and having them numbered as lowercase alpha, but if there's an easier way that would be great.
>>> I’m also interested in overriding automatical numbering, e.g. of chapters or itemization items.
>>> E.g. in my songbook, I’d like to have the verses numbered but interrupted by a chorus numbered as "C" (i.e. "R" in German).
>>> Similarly the paragraphs of some (by)laws that were changed a lot and use a numbering like 1, 2, 3, 3a, 4, 7...
>>> Something like
>>> \startitem[number={R}]
>>> or
>>> \startsection[number={3a}]
>>> would be nice.
>>> If I set it to an integer, ConTeXt should set the counter accordingly, otherwise continue counting from the previous calculated number. Would that be possible?
>> 
>> 
>> You can set your own section numbers but the counter isn't stopped.
> 
> Thank you! I overlooked "ownnumber". It works for sections, but not for items or floats.
> 
> \setnumber[section][10] doesn’t work, \setcounter the same (according to the source they’re synonymous) – does section use a different counter name or is it no counter at all?
> 
> \setnumber[figure][10] works (but only with integers, not some alphanumerical stuff, sorry Duncan).
> 
> Hraban
> 
> 
> \useMPlibrary[dum]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \startsection[title=One]
> \startplacefigure[title=Test]
> \externalfigure[dummy]
> \stopplacefigure
> \stopsection
> 
> \startsection[title=Two]
> \startplacefigure[title=Test]
> \externalfigure[dummy]
> \stopplacefigure
> \stopsection
> 
> \setcounter[figure][5] % next figure is no.6
> 
> \startsection[ownnumber=10,title=???] % ownnumber doesn’t work
> \startplacefigure[title=Test,ownnumber=10]
> \externalfigure[dummy]
> \stopplacefigure
> \stopsection
> 
> \setcounter[section][5] % doesn’t work
> 
> \startsection[title=Three]
> \startitemize[n]
>  \item one
>  \item two
>  \item three
>  \startitem[ownnumber=9] five\stopitem  % ownnumber doesn’t work
> \stopitemize
> \stopsection
> 
> \stoptext
> 
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