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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Bruce Horrocks <ntg@scorecrow.com>
Subject: Re: Quirk with \userpagenumber, datasets and the .tuc file
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:30:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98dc905d-9eb7-d091-dbf3-a412cc13a422@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F7260208-B099-439D-B6C5-DD16082A9070@scorecrow.com>

On 12/9/2020 1:08 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
> Here's an odd quirk...
> 
> I wanted to get at some of my dataset data for use outside of ConTeXt so I thought I would just extract it from the .tuc file. MWE:
> 
>    \definedataset [MyDS][delay=yes]
>    \starttext
>    \input tufte
>    \setdataset [MyDS]
>      [ title={Test title},
>        page={\userpagenumber},
>      ]
>    \stoptext
> 
> In the TUC file I get:
> 
>    utilitydata.job.datasets.collected={
>     ["MyDS"]={
>      {
>       ["index"]=1,
>       ["order"]=1,
>       ["page"]="1\\relax ",
>       ["realpage"]=1,
>       ["title"]="Test title",
>      },
>     },
>    }
> 
> Note the \\relax following the page number. This isn't a problem for me at the moment but I wondered if it is something that needs to be looked at?
you ask for the "typeset number" while you want \pagenumber

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2020-12-09 12:08 Bruce Horrocks
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