Re: Preventing caption stoppers from appearing in references

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 11/5/2013 11:01 PM, Géry Ogam wrote:
> What do you think about that Hans?

not that much yet ... maybe later this month (as that kind of tuning 
influences a lot of other mechanisms)

Hans

> Géry Ogam
>
>
> 2013/11/1 Géry Ogam <maggyero@gmail.com <mailto:maggyero@gmail.com>>
>
>     Hello Hans,
>
>     I would like to prevent caption stoppers from appearing in
>     references in ConTeXt.
>
>     Here is a minimal example:
>
>     \starttext
>     \setupcaptions[numberstopper=.~---~, distance=0em]
>     \placefigure[][cow]{A Cow}{\externalfigure[cow]}
>     \in{Figure}[cow] shows a cow.
>     \stoptext
>
>     Aditya suggested that I use suffix instead of numberstopper, which
>     works very well, but Wolgang said:
>
>     ‘I’m sorry to disappoint you but there is no official solution to
>     achieve this.
>
>     There are ways to change the stopper for section numbers in the
>     heading and
>     the text but not for the other counters (floats, descriptions etc.).
>
>     The solution you got from Aditya at stackexchange works but it’s
>     more a hack
>     because suffixes are used when you use a splitted float (e.g. a
>     table which spans
>     multiple pages) where you get 1.a., 1.b etc. (the a and b are
>     suffixes) as numbers.’
>
>     So since numberstoppers — of any kinds (for floats, sections,
>     descriptions) — are supposed to separate numbers from titles, it
>     would be logical that they don’t appear in references because
>     references don’ have titles, only numbers, so no separation sign
>     (numberstopper) is needed. Could you change that behaviour Hans, or
>     add a command for setting the layout of the numbers in references
>     (separators, counter conversion, etc.)? There is already such a
>     command for section numbers and you only have to add another one for
>     other counters.
>
>     Best regards.
>
>
>
>
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