Re: Bug or feature? Strange counter behaviour in macro

[Carsten Fechtmann <fecht@zarm-technik.de>]

Hi Aditya,

thanks for taking the time to answer this. And yes, I looked at what  
ConTeXt has already built in.

On 12.01.2008 at 18:44 wrote Aditya Mahajan:

> I haven't looked at your code below. First check if one the in-built  
> stuctural environments of ConTeXt do what you want.

As a matter of fact, I am using the following for all the heavy stuff  
(implementing that in LaTeX is/was a REAL pain)

\definesynonyms[Issue][issues][\IssueText][\IssueDate]
\setupsynonyms[Issue][criterium=all]

\Issue[1]{Issue 1:}{Some Date}
\Issue[2]{Issue 2:}{\currentdate}

and if I just put the values in by hand, it works like a champ. Sorted  
list and all.   ;-D

Took me less than 5 minutes to implement (read: find in the manual).  
Just gonna _love_ ConTeXt for that!

Now, with such a nice success (and because I have much more "counter"  
stuff on the way)
I was feeling lucky ...
and spent the next 5 hours figuring out / searching on the web / going  
over the source
how to have the "number" for each issue placed automatically, every  
time a new issue date is set.

Yes, sure, I could just _write_ that in, but then I would have to  
check myself,
which number is exactly the one I need, and not have the computer do  
it for me.
But, hey where is the fun in that? ;-)

What this all burns down is, that I /really/ would like to understand,  
how I can pass a value from a counter as (constant) argument to a self- 
defined function. As that seems to be the core of the matter/problem  
here.

Any suggestions?

Cheers
Carsten


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