Re: Italic page number.

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>]

Am 07.08.2012 um 16:22 schrieb john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>:

> On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 09:39:24 +0200
> Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Am 05.08.2012 um 02:37 schrieb john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>:
>> 
>>> IMO the following code should result in an italic iii on the
>>> contents page. Instead I get a roman 1.
>>> -------------------
>>> \startfrontmatter
>>> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,conversion=romannumerals]
>>> \setuppagenumber[number=iii]
>>> \setuppagenumber[state=start]
>>> \completecontent
>>> ------------------------------
>>> I have tried variations such as a single \setupagenumber with two
>>> parameters, using \page[iii] instead and so on. 
>>> 
>>> This ought to be a smple task: start page numbering on the
>>> contents page with iii. But I haven't mastered it yet.
>> 
>> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
>> 
>> % You can use this instead of
>> \setuppagenumbering[numberconversion=romannumerals] % to set the
>> conversion of the pagenumber outside of the sectionblock environment,
>> % the first argument takes the name of the conversion which is
>> applied to the % userpage counter with
>> \setupcounter[userpage][numberconversionset=pagenumber]. % % You can
>> set a conversion for a certain sectionblock when you write the name %
>> of the block before the name of the conversion set separated by a
>> ___:___. %
>> %\defineconversionset[frontpart:pagenumber][][romannumerals]
>> 
>> \startsectionblockenvironment[frontpart]
>> 
>> \setuppagenumbering[numberconversion=romannumerals]
>> 
>> \setcounter[userpage][3]
>> 
>> \stopsectionblockenvironment
>> 
>> \startsectionblockenvironment[bodypart]
>> 
>> \setcounter[userpage][1]
>> 
>> \stopsectionblockenvironment
>> 
>> \starttext
>> 
>> \startfrontmatter
>> 
>> \completecontent
>> 
>> \stopfrontmatter
>> 
>> \startbodymatter
>> 
>> \dorecurse{100}
>>  {\chapter{Chapter #1}
>>   \dorecurse{5}
>>     {\section{Section #1.##1}}}
>> 
>> \stoptext
>> 
>> BTW: Send next time a complete minimal example.
>> 
>> Wolfgang
>> 
> Thanks very much. Playing with your code I discovered that if I use:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> \defineconversionset[frontpart:pagenumber][][romannumerals]
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> in your example then the following statement is not needed
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> \setuppagenumbering[numberconversion=romannumerals]
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> but not vice versa. So the last statement quoted is defective in some
> way or so it seems to me. In any case I now have code that works.

See my other mail for the correct usage of numberconversion.

> Is the command \defineconversionset documented anywhere or do I have to dig
> into the macro code?

You can find a explanation of the command in the mail archive but you have
to look for old name \definestructureconverionset.

Wolfgang
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