Re: behavior of counter - bug or feature?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 21:46 01/05/2004, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>though I'm not 100 \% certain, I think this behavior came up in the latest 
>release of ConTeXt. For my manuscripts for talks, I have defined a nice 
>little counter like this
>
>\newcounter\slidecounter
>
>\define\sln{\increment\slidecounter \color[red]{[\slidecounter]} }
>
>which allows me to just type \sln when I want to mark a spot where I want 
>to show a new slide, and it will give the number in red, between brackets. 
>OK, this has been working for quite a while, but recently, I have observed 
>a strange behavior: if I use the command within an itemize-group, it will 
>count normally, but after the \stopitemize, the counter will be reset to 
>the value before the itemization. I can't swear to it, but I'm reasonably 
>certain that this wasn't the case before. Is it possible that something 
>was broken, Hans?
>
>Best wishes (especially to our new fellow-citizens)

use \doglobal\increment instead

(also, use names like \Sln so that there will never be conflicts with 
existing macros; i wouldnot be surprised if there will be a math function 
sln some day)

Hans