Re: Figure numbers, Lastpage and Column questions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:12 PM 7/10/2002 +0200, Rob van Swol wrote:
>hello,
>
>I have posted these questions couple of days ago but so far no replies,
>so I try again.
>
>1. I would like to have figure numbers running from 1 to n instead of
>per chapternumber. I have tried to use  \setupcaptions[way=bytext] but
>this not work. Taking an example from a previous discussion I still get
>Figure 1.1 instead of Figure 1
>
>\starttext
>\setupcaptions[way=bytext]
>    \chapter{test} \placefigure{}{}
>\stoptext

this is a bug that was solved in the latest version, what version do you 
run? This sample runs ok here.

>2. How do I get the total number of figures or total number of tabels,
>or more general totalnumberoffloat.?

good question, seems that i need to implement that feature; for the moment 
say:

\prependtoks
   \textreference[totalnoftables]{\ruwenummer[table]}
   \textreference[totalnoffigures]{\ruwenummer[figure]}
\to \everylastshipout

\def\totalnoftables {\textreference[totalnoftables]}
\def\totalnoffigures{\textreference[totalnoffigures]}

and submit a feature request to the context bugzilla server

>3. How do I get the total number of numbered pages (not \lastpage
>because this one includes the number of unnumbered pages at the start of
>my document, e.q. title page)?

\realfolio

(\realpageno is the raw page counter)

>4. Columns: If I put balance=no, the text after stopcolumns is placed on
>a new page, which is not what I want. Also, it seems that the height=3cm
>does not do anything. Basically, I want to fill the first column first
>and continue in the next column after the height or number of lines are
>reached. Is this possible?

not with this mechanism, but columnset can be told to explictly have a 
certain number of lines

(will be documented soon, after i finished a whole range of styles that can 
serve as example)

Hans
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