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From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Itemize numbering
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:36:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BB6AFF78-5D09-4EA0-869B-537CD9DDCE78@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804291148440.19560@nqv-yncgbc>

Am 2008-04-29 um 17:49 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>> I just tried the following on Context Live:
>>
>> \starttext
>> \startitemize[n]
>>  \item one
>>  \item two
>>    \startitemize
>>      \item a
>>      \item b
>>    \stopitemize
>>  \item three
>> \stopitemize
>> \stoptext
>>
>> and the first itemize starts at 0.  Remove the inner itemize and  
>> it starts
>> at 1.
>>
>> Is this a feature or a bug?  How do I get around it?
>
> I can confirm that here. This is indeed a bug.

I reported some weeks ago that numbering starts always at 0 with --once

I guess Hans & Co went after the dictum of Dijkstra[0], as quoted  
recently by Knuth[1], that counting should start at 0 ;-)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra
[1] http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-30 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-29 14:45 richard.stephens
2008-04-29 15:49 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-04-30 12:36   ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2008-04-30 17:05     ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-05-02 12:47 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-05-02 14:03 richard.stephens
2008-05-19 12:08 itemize numbering Hans van der Meer
2008-05-19 12:15 ` Wolfgang Schuster

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