From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Itemize numbering
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:05:32 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804301303260.11283@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BB6AFF78-5D09-4EA0-869B-537CD9DDCE78@fiee.net>
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> 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
The reason for all these bugs of starting with zero is my reqest for a
reverse key to itemize and then I could not foresee all the use cases.
Aditya
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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
2008-04-30 17:05 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
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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