From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Automatic counting groupsuffix for subfigures
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 10:24:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <db2d6d62-73ce-a2c4-4631-a9844735af99@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211124101906.2d8b7da4@homerow>
On 11/24/2021 10:19 AM, Marco Patzer via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to use subfigure numbering for floats. This works:
>
> \useMPlibrary [dum]
> \starttext
>
> \startplacefigure [location=none]
> \startfloatcombination [nx=2]
> \startplacefigure [title=Left, reference=ref:left, group=one, groupsuffix=a]
> \externalfigure
> \stopplacefigure
> \startplacefigure [title=Right, reference=ref:right, group=one, groupsuffix=b]
> \externalfigure
> \stopplacefigure
> \stopfloatcombination
> \stopplacefigure
>
> See \in{image}[ref:right] (right) and \in{image}[ref:left] (left).
> \stoptext
>
> The output is correct, but the usage is verbose. I'd like to replace
> the manual groupsuffix numbering with something automatic. ConTeXt
> uses automatic numbering in many places so it seems strange to
> number the subfigures manually.
>
> I have tried using counters and labels, but something is always
> messed up and I couldn't get it to work.
>
> How to achieve automatic subfigure numbering without specifying the
> groupsuffix manually?
sort of tricky due to multipass and other synchronizations although in
the end some 20 lines of code can do it ... i'll send you and wolfgang a
test file with a more native feature
Hans
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