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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: how to stop pagenumbering
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:32:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568058D7.1000805@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90FE051A-3B6B-426C-8CAD-D996C44705AE@uva.nl>


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> Meer, Hans van der <mailto:H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
> 27. Dezember 2015 um 22:25
>
>> On 27 Dec 2015, at 21:57, Wolfgang Schuster 
>> <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com <mailto:schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>> 
>> wrote:
>
>> Meer, Hans van der <mailto:H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
>> 27. Dezember 2015 um 21:47
>>> One more observation on the strangeness of \setuppagenumber.
>>>
>>> Putting \setuppagenumber[number=4] before the call to 
>>> \xmlprocessbuffer and putting\setuppagenumber[state=stop,number=8] 
>>> inside the \startxmlsetups does make the pagenumber having the value 
>>> 8. This proves two things:
>>>
>>> (1) the \setuppagenumber in the \startxmlsetups is processed before 
>>> the pagenumber is fixed and typeset
>>>
>>> (2) the [state=stop] in the \startxmlsetups is wrongfully ignored, 
>>> whereas at the same time [number=8] does get honored.
>>>
>>> Imho this demonstrates there is an error in the processing of 
>>> \setuppagenumber when located inside the \startxmlsetups. An error 
>>> that does not occur when called at the \starttext document-level 
>>> before the \xmlprocessbuffer.
>>> Could it be a matter of locality?
>
>> You have to provide a *working* minimal example.
>
> Not so simple, alas.
> But I will be greatly helped if you can ascertain that
>
> \startxmlsetups
> code within
> \stopxmlsetups
>
> is code executed locally as if between \begingroup .. \endgroup.
> That would explain the behaviour.
> The remedy then could be a more global execution of \setuppagenumber.
I have to disappoint you but the content of the setups environment isn't 
grouped.
> I already tried in vain \global\settuppagenumber
This doesn't work here.

Wolfgang

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-12-27 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-27 13:21 Meer, Hans van der
2015-12-27 16:20 ` Meer, Hans van der
2015-12-27 20:47   ` Meer, Hans van der
2015-12-27 20:57     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-12-27 21:25       ` Meer, Hans van der
2015-12-27 21:32         ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]

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