From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: why is \getnumber an undefined control sequence?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:33:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F79C6E5.8070302@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F79C3A3.8040708@uni-bonn.de>
On 2-4-2012 17:20, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On 04/02/2012 05:15 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> The problem are these two synonyms:
>>
>> \let \getnumber \getcounter % [name]
>> \let \convertednumber \getcounter % [name]
>>
>> There is a \convertedcounter but no \getcounter.
>>
>> @Thomas: You can \rawcounter to print only the numeric value of the
>> counter or \convertedcounter for a formatted form of the counter (you
>> can apply a conversion, e.g. romannumerals or add a prefix, e.g. the
>> current chapter or section number).
>>
>> Wolfgang
>
> Ah, thank you Wolfgang! \rawcounter is sufficient for me in my real-life
> case, but I assume you will want to add \getcounter? (And are the number
> synonyms here to stay, or will they be deleted?)
they might stay as they are in manuals but best start using the counter
names (reason: a,b,c is counting but not numbering)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-02 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-02 14:46 Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-04-02 14:56 ` Hans Hagen
2012-04-02 15:03 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-04-02 15:15 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-04-02 15:20 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-04-02 15:33 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-04-02 16:37 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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