Thank you alot Aditya! Somehow I didn't even think about using subsubjects
instead of subsections. I guess it was too obvious a solution.

best regards,
Julian

2011/5/9 Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>

> On Wed, 4 May 2011, Julian Becker wrote:
>
>  I came across the following problem recently: In my document I want
>> chapters
>> and sections to be numbered, but not subsections, subsubsections etc.
>> Then, additionally I want my formulae to be numbered by chapter and
>> section,
>> but not subsection.
>>
>> In the following example the first equation gets numbered correctly as
>> (1.1), (1.2) and (3) in the first chapter, and as (2.1), (2.2) and (3) in
>> the second chapter respectively, which is not what I wanted. I'd rather
>> have
>> the formulae numbered as   (1.1), (1.2) and (1.3) in the first chapter,
>> and
>> as (2.1), (2.2) and (2.3).
>>
>
> The current behavior looks like a bug to me.
>
>
>  Anybody has an idea how to accomplish this?
>>
>
> Don't use subsections with number=no. Rather use subsubject.
>
> \setupformulas[way=bychapter]
>
> \starttext
> \chapter{Wake up}
> \placeformula
> \startformula a^2+b^2=c^2
> \stopformula
> \section{Make Coffee}
> \placeformula
> \startformula c^2+d^2=e^2
> \stopformula
> \subsubject{Now waking up for real}
>
> \placeformula
> \startformula a^2+b^2=c^2
> \stopformula
> \chapter{Wake up again}
> \placeformula
> \startformula a^2+b^2=c^2
> \stopformula
> \section{Make Coffee again}
> \placeformula
> \startformula c^2+d^2=e^2
> \stopformula
> \subsubject{Now waking up for real}
>
> \placeformula
> \startformula a^2+b^2=c^2
> \stopformula
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> Aditya
>
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