On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

>
> Am 14.09.2012 um 00:36 schrieb Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
>
>> I have been able to isolate the bug to the update on 2012.07.09; specifically to this commit.
>>
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/context.git/blobdiff/6f124794f7dc253f8b83f2517c26ce17e50d66ff..refs/heads/origin:/tex/context/base/strc-num.mkiv
>>
>> If I replace the current version of strc-num.mkiv with the version from 2012.07.09:
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/context.git/blob_plain/6f124794f7dc253f8b83f2517c26ce17e50d66ff:/tex/context/base/strc-num.mkiv
>>
>> then the numbering is correct.
>>
>> However, I cannot figure out what is causing the bug in that change.
>
> Part of the problem is this code block:
>
> \def\strc_counters_check_setup#1% does it have to happen here?
>  {% this can be done at the lua end / a bit messy here ... todo ...
>   \ifcsname\??counter#1\c!number\endcsname
>        \doifelsevalue   {\??counter#1\c!number}{#1} {\letbeundefined{\??counter#1\c!number}}%
>       {\doifvaluenothing{\??counter#1\c!number}     {\letbeundefined{\??counter#1\c!number}}}%
>   \fi
>   \ifcsname\??counter#1\c!number\endcsname
>     % it's a clone
>   \else
>     \edef\currentcounterlevel{\thenamedcounterlevel{#1}}%
>     \edef\p_start{\counterparameter{#1}\c!start}%
>     \ctxcommand{checkcountersetup("#1",\currentcounterlevel,\ifx\p_start\empty0\else\number\p_start\fi,"\counterparameter{#1}\c!state")}%
>   \fi}
>
> ConTeXt uses \p_start to store the current value of the start parameter.
> When you set now a value for start in \setuppagenumber the value is kept
> in \p_start (because there are no groups). When you start now the itemize
> environment the same code is loaded and the start parameter (which hasn’t
> been set yet) expands to a very stupid default value which is by another
> helper function.
>
> \def\strc_counter_setup_using_parameter#1#2% name \someparameter
>  {\edef\p_start{#2\c!start}%
>   \setupcounter
>     [#1]
>     [              \c!start=\ifx\p_start\empty0\else\number\p_start\fi,
>                           ...
>           \c!numbersegments=#2\c!numbersegments]}
>
>
> As you can see here the start parameter expands to \p_start when it isn’t empty
> what is the case here and because of this you get a wrong value for the item numbers.

Thanks for the diagnosis. What will be a good way to fix this? I think 
that

\expanded{\setupcounter[#1][\c!start=\ifx\p_start\empty0\else\number\p_start\fi.,...]}

should work (but I haven't tested it yet).

Aditya