[NTG-context] Re: How can a macro check how many items are in a list?

[Bruce Horrocks <ntg@scorecrow.com>]

On 4 Nov 2024, at 17:52, Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg

> And then for Bruce to come up with the singular / plural variant for

Thanks Hans.

A “pluraliser” for item/item, entry/entries etc is overkill given that only one person has requested the feature so far and, mainly, I have no idea how a multi-lingual version might work. :-)

In English texts it is quite common to write “item(s)” when it is not certain how many are being referred to. This works quite nicely in Context:

  \def\item(s){\if\upcomingnofitems 1{item}\else{items}\fi}

which allows:

  This list has \upcomingnofitems\ \item(s)

in the source.

So I’m going to suggest that we leave it for individual users to do what’s simplest for them. I’ll add something to the wiki when this comes out in the next release.

—
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK

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