Re: Header number separator

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Jeff Smith wrote:

> On 11/7/06, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>
>
>> I need this functionality for a project (IEEE conference style), so
>> here is hack to get the feature. The referencing also works.
>>
>> Use with caution, can break existing macros.
>
> Wow, thanks a lot! This works as expected. In what situation can it
> break existing macros? I intend to use that extensively but in a
> fairly simple document (a thesis... yeah, another one in ConTeXt!). Is
> there anything I should _not_ do?

In principle, it should work fine for european languages. Lot of the 
trickery with numbers and number formats is present because ConTeXt 
also supports other languages like chinese and arabic.

@@longsectionnumber is used a lot by the sectioning macros, and I do 
not completely understand what is happening here. My solution was 
based on trial and error and figuring out what works.

Moreover, it changes a core feature of ConTeXt. I am associating 
separators with sectioning levels rather than with heads. Right now, 
in principle, you can have different separators for different heads at 
the same level. For example

\setuphead[remark][section=section-4,separator=.]
\setuphead[note][section=section-4,separator=-]

With this change, this will no longer work. So, the macro is not 
backward compatible, and thus can break existing code. If you have 
only one head at each sectioning level, and do not plan to use Chinese 
or Arabic, it should work fine. Atleast for my simple, 5 page 
document, it works correctly :-)

Aditya