Numbering in margin

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

Hi all,

I want some numbers to appear in the paragraph. It's for a commentary,  
so the numbering isn't continuous, but pretty arbitrary. The problem  
is, I need two sets of numbers (for sections and subsections), and I  
want both in the margin, like so:

1  1   Some text

    3   More text

    4   Even more

3  1   And more

    2   and so on

5      Sometimes, there are sections without subsections

So far, I have succeeded in doing this with some low-level trickery by  
defining two commands, LEVELONE and LEVELTWO:

\def\LEVELONE#1 {\dontleavehmode\llap{#1\kern1.8em \null}}

\def\LEVELTWO#1 {\dontleavehmode\llap{\tfx #1\kern1em \null}}

(I need to gobble the space after the command, that's why I included  
it in the \def). However, I'm wondering if there's a more ConTeXt-like  
way of doing this, since my next project will be to do this for xml  
files. I had tried with \inmargin[1] and \inmargin[2], but that didn't  
quite do what I expected. Any thoughts on this?

All best

Thomas

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