Continuous chapter numbering

Continuous chapter numbering

[Randall Skelton]

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Hi all,

I have a technical manual setup in ConTeXt whereby the manual itself is a
ConTeXt 'project' and each chapter is a different component. Within this, I
need to group some chapters together so these grouped chapters are products.
Thus, I have:

project: MyManual
component: Chapter 1
component: Chapter 2
component: Chapter 3
product: Example 1
component: Chapter 4
component: Chapter 5
product: Example 2
component: Chapter 6
component: Chapter 7
product: Example 3
component: Chapter 8
component: Chapter 9
...

Is there a way to have the chapter numbers be continuous rather than
resetting at the beginning of each product? I have already disabled product
numbers in a setupheader command but I'm stumped at how to make the chapter
numbers continuous. I've tried playing with "incrementnumber=file" but I'm
not sure this appropraite... any hints here would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks!
Randall

\setuphead
[part]
[textcommand=\MyPartText,
textstyle={\switchtobodyfont[Titling, 11pt]\sc},
placehead=yes,
color=black,
number=no,
page=right,
continue=no,
header=empty,
distance=0pt,
before=\setups{part:before},
after=\setups{part:after}]

\setuphead[Topic,chapter]
[
numbercommand=\MyChapterNumberText,
incrementnumber=prj_thesis,
textcommand=\MyChapterText,
textstyle={\switchtobodyfont[Titling, 11pt]\sc},
color=black,
number=yes,
page=right,
continue=no,
header=empty,
distance=0pt,
before=\vbox to 3cm\bgroup,
after=\vss\egroup
]

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Re: Continuous chapter numbering

[Peter Münster]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Randall Skelton wrote:

> I have a technical manual setup in ConTeXt whereby the manual itself is a
> ConTeXt 'project' and each chapter is a different component. Within this, I
> need to group some chapters together so these grouped chapters are products..
> Thus, I have:
> 
> project: MyManual
> component: Chapter 1
> component: Chapter 2
> component: Chapter 3
> product: Example 1
> component: Chapter 4
> component: Chapter 5
> product: Example 2
> component: Chapter 6
> component: Chapter 7
> product: Example 3
> component: Chapter 8
> component: Chapter 9

Hello Randall,

it's considered, that the project-file contains only setup-commands and a
list of products, but no commands, that generate directly output.

When you compile a product, the referenced project-file gets included in
some manner, so every product of the project will inherit the same setups.
Compiling the project-file is seldom useful. It will generate all products
in one file.

Consider just, that one product is one document, and a component is a kind
of "sub-document" for example a chapter. And the project-file is just a
list of documents, that should inherit some common setups.

I suggest the following structure:

project: MyManual
		 product: the manual
				  component: Chapter 1
				  component: Chapter 2
				  component: Chapter 3
				  component: Chapter 4
				  component: Chapter 5
				  component: Chapter 6
				  component: Chapter 7
				  component: Chapter 8
				  component: Chapter 9
		 product: Example 1
				  component: title page for example 1
				  component: Chapter 4
				  component: Chapter 5
		 product: Example 2
				  component: title page for example 2
				  component: Chapter 6
				  component: Chapter 7
		 product: Example 3
				  component: title page for example 3
				  component: Chapter 8
				  component: Chapter 9

I hope, this helps.
Cheers, Peter

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Re: Continuous chapter numbering

[Hans Hagen Test]

Randall Skelton wrote:

>
> Is there a way to have the chapter numbers be continuous rather than 
> resetting at the beginning of each product?  I have already disabled 
> product numbers in a setupheader command but I'm stumped at how to 
> make the chapter numbers continuous.  I've tried playing with 
> "incrementnumber=file" but I'm not sure this appropraite... any hints 
> here would be greatly appreciated.

\setuphead[chapter][resetnumber=no]

\starttext
    \chapter{test}
    \section{foo}
    \section{bar}
    \chapter{test}
    \section{foo}
    \section{bar}
\stoptext

should work with part as well

Hans

Re: Continuous chapter numbering

[Matthias Weber]

When I read emails from Hans like this one, I get very suspicious  
that he has
a time machine to go backward a few months in time and add a feature  
so that it is already
there when it is being requested ---

Matthias

On Oct 24, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Hans Hagen Test wrote:

> Randall Skelton wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Is there a way to have the chapter numbers be continuous rather  
>> than resetting at the beginning of each product?  I have already  
>> disabled product numbers in a setupheader command but I'm stumped  
>> at how to make the chapter numbers continuous.  I've tried playing  
>> with "incrementnumber=file" but I'm not sure this appropraite...  
>> any hints here would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>
> \setuphead[chapter][resetnumber=no]
>
> \starttext
>    \chapter{test}
>    \section{foo}
>    \section{bar}
>    \chapter{test}
>    \section{foo}
>    \section{bar}
> \stoptext
>
> should work with part as well
>
> Hans
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Re: Continuous chapter numbering

[Hans Hagen Test]

Matthias Weber wrote:

> When I read emails from Hans like this one, I get very suspicious  
> that he has
> a time machine to go backward a few months in time and add a feature  
> so that it is already
> there when it is being requested ---

well think of this: we really needed those feature some time ago, but 
never had time to document them at that moment; there is quite some 
nasty stuff in there, esp with regards to sectioning

Hans