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texfont bugs
by Adam Lindsay 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hi folks. Looks like the current texfont is a bit broken right now. I believe it's the introduction of the "if ($IsWin32) " block: the pragma "use Win32::API" doesn't seem to work within the conditional block. Furthermore, I'm not sure the else block that follows comes to a sane ending, so I was unsure of the fix. I take it the change was to address embedded spaces on windows systems? I'm all in favour of tying up loose x-platform ends (esp those I may have left in my wake), but I think there's been a step backwards. Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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How to adress footnote's numbers in main text?
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Dear colisters, as I typeset my text with oldstyle figures I also have the footnote's numbers in oldstyle. But those figures look quite strange when set superscript in the text. Changing the footnote's numbers in the footnote area (bottom) was possible by: \definefont [MajuskelFNfont][OldStyle at 8.5pt] \setupfootnotes[numbercommand=\MajuskelFNfont,rule=\MyRule] But how can I adress the superscript footnote's numbers in the main text?? Happy for any reply, Steffen

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Aligment?
by ^Nitram^ 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hi, When I trying with new commands I noticed that: \framed[align=left,width=broad]{left} \framed[align=right,width=broad]{right} produced: |-------------------| | left| |-------------------| |-------------------| |right | |-------------------| Why ?... ;) -- Best regards Martin

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italic correction
by Idris S Hamid 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Dear syndicate, Sometimes I make a definition like \def\TR{\it} for certain purposes (structural consistency, etc.). How do I modify this to automatically do an italic correction the way \em is set up to do in \ConTeXt? ====================== By the way, did Hans ever make a "final" ConTeXt logo? I still think that \def\Context{{\sc C\kern -.0667emo\kern -.0667emn\kern -.0549emt\kern -.1667em\lower .5ex\hbox {e}\kern -.125emx\kern -.0549emt}} looks better than Con\TeX{}t (and the smaller \TeX better reflects its relative role in the whole package), and I've been using the former up to now. Hope that's not a problem-) best Idris

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Re: [NTG-context] Typing in new command problems
by ^Nitram^ 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hi, > > Is it impossible? > Is this a real question? No ;) But the real should be '... for newbie' :) [cut] Thank you very much. I did it in this way: \defineframedtext[Frame][width=broad,bodyfont=9pt,align=right] %but align is a little strange = see new post Aligment? \def\Command#1#2 {\setuptyping[before=\startFrame,after=\stopFrame] \setupTABLE[frame=off]\bTABLE\bTR\bTD[width=.2\textwidth,align=left] %align again \bfx #2\eTD\bTD \typebuffer[#1] \eTD\eTR\eTABLE \setuptyping[before=,after=]} And now it is what I want ;) Probably there is another way to do this but I'm in ConTeXt since 1-2 months ;) -- Best regards Martin

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Odp: ntg-context digest, Vol 1 #484 - 13 msgs
by ^Nitram^ 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Hi, > > I try to define new command with typing in this way: > Don't mess with verbatim stuff in commands. Don't ask why, just don't > do it ;-) > \definetyping > [nitram] > [before=\startframedtext, > after=\stopframedtext] > \starttext > \startnitram > crazy > \stopnitram > \stoptext It works but if I use \startnitram \getbuffer \stopnitram I have as result: \getbuffer ;) I would like to define some code in buffer and use it as example (typing this code) and show how it works (use this code). I can use \getbuffer and \typebuffer, but I would like to put code into a 'nice' frame ;) I can do it by \framed[number of options]{\typebuffer}, but I would like to do it in better way - by defining own command and use \Command{\getbuffer}. Is it impossible? -- Best regards Martin

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Again: \indenting[*hang*] ?!
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Sep '03

24 Sep '03

Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski(a)gmx.net> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:52:03 +0200 > Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > > > At 14:28 19/09/2003 +0200, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >Is there a way to have something like \indenting[hang] ? > > > > > >With the first line not indented, but the second and following lines? > > > > > > > > >First I thought this is what is ment by \indenting[next], > > >but \indenting[next] seems to be exactly the same as \indenting[first], is > > >this right? > > > > kind of tricky, since settings to hangindent and alike are forgotten when > > the setup is followed by an empty line; > > > > there is \starthanging ... \stophanging now Ah! > > but ... if we can assume that users start tagging their paragraphs with > > \bpar .. \epar i can imagine that we provide something \indenting [hang], > > so the question is: are you willing to tag > > imo, the question is: what has hanging to do with indenting? > Aren't these things completely different matters? > If yes, please don't spoil \indenting with that. > > \setuphanging already exists... Hi Hans, hi Jens! There is always another surprise in ConTexT. I mean: How should I know? My sources are Hans's manuals + the list-archiv. Neither in the manuals nor in the archive \setuphanging or \starthanging is mentioned... So I am sorry for asking for things that maybe already exist! But now I have to ask: how do I use \setuphanging or \starthanging actually? Is there some kind of documentation or at least a minimal example somewhere? Thanks for the lessons. Steffen

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probably well known problem
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi all! I've just finished (?) reinstalling and configuring my TeX system. It is quite small conglomerate of cont-bas, cont-tmf and my own packages. I've successfully generated all formats using fmtutil. However I have some troubles with 'cont-en'; it was successfully generated but do not work properly. I tried to do that also with texexec 'shell'. I need pl language hyphenation patterns as a default and for some cases also en and de. That's why I uncommented following lines in cont-usr.tex file: ... \installlanguage [\s!de] [\c!status=\v!start] \installlanguage [\s!en] [\c!status=\v!start] \installlanguage [\s!pl] [\c!status=\v!start] ... \setupcurrentlanguage[\s!pl] \definefilesynonym [font-cmr] [font-plr] % \useencoding[fde] % commented by me \useencoding[fpl] ... After these changes I generated format with command texexec --make --language=pl,en,de --bodyfont=plr en Log file (cont-fmt): \unprotect \installlanguage[\s!pl][\c!status=\v!start] \installlanguage[\s!en][\c!status=\v!start] \installlanguage[\s!de][\c!status=\v!start] \setupcurrentlanguage[\s!pl] \definetypescriptsynonym[cmr][plr]\definefilesynonym[font-cmr][font-plr] \protect \endinput Is it correct? After that I expect format with following features: -- interface: english -- default language: polish -- other languages (activated by \language[??]): en,de -- default font: plr The problem is that default font is still CMR and I want to use PLR. What is wrong? What should I do? Oh by the way, I recomend you cont-bas package; tidy, small and complete. Regards, Pawe/l

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\defineenumeration
by Willi Egger 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi, Thanks Hans for the patch concerning enumerations. - Certain things now work as I thought they should, others don't . :-( In the meantime I downloaded and installed the latest (yesterdays) CONTeXT. 1. Numbering starts at 2, and the following items get numberd 4,6, 2. I detected, that the option style=command, I used style=\em, does not give the desired result. The first item would be slanted, the second would be regular and the third again slanted. - Hoewer using style=slanted makes all items slanted. Please find attached a minimal test file (probe.tex) Cheers Willi

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Typing in new command problems
by ^Nitram^ 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi, I try to define new command with typing in this way: \def\Command#1% { \framed[options] { \starttyping #1 \stoptyping } } and use it in this way: \Command{\getbuffer[name]} but I have an error: ! Argument of \copyverbatimline has an extra }. If I change to \def\Command#1#2% I have: ! Paragraph ended before \Command was complete. How I can do it - put ConTeXt code to own frame ?... -- Best regards Martin

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(no subject)
by Severin Obertuefer 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

hi i have the following metapost picture: beginfig(2); path c; pair A, B; c := fullcircle scaled 2 cm; A := (origin--(3cm,2cm)) intersectionpoint subpath (0,2) of c; B := (origin--(-5cm,1cm)) intersectionpoint subpath (2,4) of c; draw c; draw origin--B; draw origin--A; endfig; how can I cut the the part of the path c between A and B, so that the result is like a cheese :) i made: path t; t := saucer cutafter A; c := c cutbefore B; now c and t is that what i want, but i it possible to cominte these two paths to one path. I think there is a more elegant way to do that...somethink like "subpath (B,A) of c" thanks for help severin -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++ Getestet von Stiftung Warentest: GMX FreeMail (GUT), GMX ProMail (GUT) (Heft 9/03 - 23 e-mail-Tarife: 6 gut, 12 befriedigend, 5 ausreichend) Jetzt selbst kostenlos testen: http://www.gmx.net

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Suggestions for Latin Modern
by Idris S Hamid 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi, gang I hope this does not come too late:-) I have been using cmr for my work in the humanities up to now, and I have had to tweak things in sometimes satisfactory and other times less unsatisfactory ways. Here are some suggestions for the upcoming Latin Modern if it's not too late: 1. Make old-style numerals the default. This improves cmr for use in the humanities so much I'm almost surprised Knuth did not at least make a global old-style option. Alan Hoenig has made fontinst files for a virtual cmros; I have made a complete typescript for it, including a way to manage the bold case, for which Knuth only made a 10-point oldstyle size. I will present this package to the ConTeXt list in the coming days. There is still a small bug in cmros: it occasionally treats punctuation marks as part of the word when hyphenating, but otherwise I'm quite satisfied with it. 2. The main things I personally need are diacritics for transliteration. I'm using amateurish macros right now but a global font solution would be so much better. I'm including some of my own definitions which don't work in all circumstances. I especially have problems when switching from upright to slanted positions: a. a crescent under the letter `h': \def\h#1{\oalign{#1\crcr\hidewidth\SHIFT{34}% \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\char'25}\vss}\hidewidth}} example: `\v Sa\h h' is a scientific transliteration of `Shaykh', based on the German ZDMG system. b. The two glottal stops use a special left and right apostrophe respectively. When the following letter is capitalized the apostrophe must be higher. Once again, I have problems getting things consistent from upright to slanted %%=====================ayn-hamzah==================== \def\SHIFT#1{\dimen0=.00#1ex \multiply\dimen0 by\fontdimen1\font \kern-.0156\dimen0} % compensate for slant/italic in lower accents \def\USHIFT#1{\dimen0=.00#1ex \multiply\dimen0 by\fontdimen1\font \kern.0156\dimen0} % compensate for slant/italic in upper accents \def\talign#1{\leavevmode\vtop{\baselineskip0pt \lineskip-2.05ex \ialign{##\crcr#1\crcr}}} \def\ttalign#1{\leavevmode\vtop{\baselineskip0pt \lineskip-2.22ex \ialign{##\crcr#1\crcr}}} \def\lowalign#1{\leavevmode\vtop{\baselineskip0pt \lineskip-1.25ex \ialign{##\crcr#1\crcr}}} \def\highalign#1{\leavevmode\vtop{\baselineskip0pt \lineskip-1.60ex \ialign{##\crcr#1\crcr}}} \def\LowKernH{\kern-1.15ex} \def\LowKernA{\kern-1.2ex} \def\HighKern{\kern-1.4ex} \def\LowHamzah#1{\lowalign{#1\crcr\hidewidth\USHIFT{12}% \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\the\textfont1\LowKernH\char'55}\vss}\hidewidth}} \def\HighHamzah#1{\highalign{#1\crcr\hidewidth\USHIFT{30}% \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\the\textfont1\HighKern\char'55}\vss}\hidewidth}} \def\LowAyn#1{\lowalign{#1\crcr\hidewidth\USHIFT{15}% \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\the\textfont1\LowKernA\char'54}\vss}\hidewidth}} \def\HighAyn#1{\highalign{#1\crcr\hidewidth\USHIFT{30}% \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\the\textfont1\HighKern\char'54}\vss}\hidewidth}} \def\AynHamzahKern{\kern.0625em} \def\PreAynHamzahKern{\kern0em} \def\IKern{\kern0.10em} \def\Hamzah{\leavevmode\raise.17ex\hbox{\USHIFT{1}\os-}\SHIFT{10}\AynHamzahKern} \def\Ayn {\leavevmode\raise.17ex\hbox{\USHIFT{1}\os,}\SHIFT{10}\AynHamzahKern} \def\HighHamzah{\leavevmode\raise.5ex\hbox{\os-}\SHIFT{10}\AynHamzahKern} \def\HighAyn {\leavevmode\raise.5ex\hbox{\os,}\SHIFT{10}\AynHamzahKern} \def\`{\PreAynHamzahKern\Ayn} \def\'{\PreAynHamzahKern\Hamzah} \def\HA{\PreAynHamzahKern\HighAyn} \def\HH{\PreAynHamzahKern\HighHamzah} ==================================== Here are a couple of applications: s\=a\'il (questioner), \HA Ab\=d (someone's name), \`ayn (spring, eye) A big problem with my macros (I don't know if this is ConTeXt-related): Whenever I use \`, \', \HA, \HH at small point sizes (<10 points), the \the\textfont1\char'54 gets much smaller than one would expect, which is no good. 3. VERY IMPORTANT: When used often, \=i (\=\i in plain TeX) looks terrible; the bar over the `i' is too wide and runs into other letters. When used frequently (it is one of the most used in transliterating Arabic) it is really irritating. What good typesetters have done is make the bar over the `i' shorter. Now I'm sure that Hans and others can come up an elegant trick to redefine \=\i to get this bar shorter, but it seems to me to be wiser to just put it in the font. 4. For more examples that the authors of Latin Modern may like to consider, see the tables in the following article of mine: http://www.gsp-online.org/journals/journaldocs/shi/transliteration.pdf ====================================== If this new font meets our needs, I will be more than happy to showcase latin modern in future issues of my journal, and mention both the font and its authors in the colophon. Best wishes Idris

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context2html or context2xml | xml2html ??
by Maurice Diamantini 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Bonjour à tous, Is there something (an executable or a context package) which would allow us to write some (basic) context file, to html? I read that there is some work with context and xml, so perhaps there is a mean for translating a context document to html? context --> xml --> html ? I think to something like latex2html or hevea ? Cordialement, Maurice. P.S I use linux and MacOSX -- Maurice.Diamantini(a)ensta.fr - ENSTA/LMA École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées http://www.ensta.fr/~diam

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Footnotes
by Willi Egger 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi everybody, I have to typset several footnotes. I setup a bodyfont (sanserif, Helvetica like). Why are the footnotes typset in cmr? Consider the following minimal testfile \starttext \startitemize \head Rug rugggenbord dikte 0.5\Milli\Meter \startlocalfootnotes[0] \starttabulate[|lm|lm|] \NC L_R \EQ L_P \NC\NR \NC B_R \EQ D_{boekblok} \footnote{Rugdikte gemeten langs de ronding van het boekblok met een strook papier} \NC\NR \stoptabulate {\placelocalfootnotes} \stoplocalfootnotes \stopitemize \stoptext In the logfile I find the following statement: check : missing or ungrouped '=' after '0' in line 9 (@@vn) I used this mechanism earlier. But can't understand this behaviour in this case. Any hints?/ Willi

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ncie trick
by Hans Hagen 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi, If you want to have breakpoints in a section title dependent on a version of a document, herw is a trick: \definetextmodediscretionary wb {\\} \definetextmodediscretionary ib { } \definetextmodediscretionary wb { } \definetextmodediscretionary ib {\\} \starttext \chapter{first|wb|second|ib|third} \stoptext (legal misuse of the || mechanism) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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FONT-CHI.TEX
by Matthew Huggett 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi again: Line 660 of FONT-CHI.TEX has a \starttabulate while ln 812 has \starttabel . Is this a mistake? They should both be Dutch, shouldn't they? Matt

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M-GAMMA.TEX
by Matthew Huggett 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Hello All: I was just trying to generate a pdf of M-GAMMA.TEX. TeX complains that \OTP\ in line 16 of the source, << %D We define a couple of symbolic \OTP\ filters >> hasn't been defined. I was able to process the file by replacing \OTP\ with \type{\OTP\} Matt

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Re: METAPOST problem
by Emil Hedevang Lohse 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Apparently it takes some time for my suggestion to get through to the mailing list, so I send you a direct answer: Isn't it easier to use arctime and the specify A and B as lengths instead of points? For example: A := 1cm; B := 1cm; draw subpath (arctime A of c, arctime (arclength c) - B of c) of c; The code is not tested. Regards, -- Emil Hedevang Lohse <http://home.imf.au.dk/emil/> Alle spørgsmål er lige dumme. Og spørgsmålet "Kan ænder flyve?" er ikke dumt.

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newbie tabulate question
by Thomas A.Schmitz 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

This is probably an easy one, but I couldn't figure it out: I want to set up a tabulation with a whitespace of 0.5 lines between rows. But no matter where I put my \blank, the tabulation always appears as packed. Thanks for your help! (Is there any more elaborate docu on tabulate than the three pages in the manual and the few lines in core-tbl.tex?) Thomas

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(no subject)
by Thomas A.Schmitz 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Sorry if this is a double post; I sent this message on Friday, and I think it somehow got lost. In March/April 2002, Hans and Idris had an interesting exchange about the topic "critical editions in context" here in ntg-context; the main question was whether the functionality of edmac could be implemented in context. I'd be curious to know whether anything came out of it, I couldn't find any follow-up. Best Thomas

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Again: How to make empty pages by default empty?
by Steffen Wolfrum 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

> > So I don't have to post so many (unanswered) questions any more... > > Posting ConTeXt questions is fun, so don't stop doing this. > > > Patrick Alright! So maybe I am also allowed to send again one of my favorite problems from last week? Still unanswered. Still unsolved. Very interesting! To whom it may concern - don't hesitate to post an answer... Thank you all, Steffen Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 10:05 19/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > >Hi Steffen, > > > > > > \definepagebreak > > > [chapter] > > > [yes,header,right] > > \definepagebreak > [chapter] > [empty,header,right] Sorry, but that doesn't work. When changed the minimal example to... \definepagebreak [chapter] [empty,header,right] \setuphead [chapter] [page=chapter,] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext \startfrontmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \stopbodymatter \stoptext ... we have page numbers on (empty) page number 4, 18 and 19! Plus there are two strange empty empty pages before the TOC?! Steffen

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Re: Again: \indenting[*hang*] ?!
by Steffen Wolfrum 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum <wlfrm(a)estfiles.de> writes: > > > There is always another surprise in ConTexT. I mean: > > How should I know? > > I didn't know either. :-) > > > My sources are Hans's manuals + the list-archiv. Neither in the > > manuals nor in the archive \setuphanging or \starthanging is > > mentioned... > > Use the source, Luke ... Thanks again Patrick. Nice example. Do you also could me a hint where to start reading the source? For example in this case - setuphanging - which file's to read? So I don't have to post so many (unanswered) questions any more... Steffen

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Struggles with \useblocks
by Willi Egger 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Hi gang! I do not know why this does not work therefore the following: I have a document with several chapters. At the beginning an environment file is loaded. In the environment file there is a block defined as \defineblock[Impressum] and the block is immediately hidden with \hideblocks[Impressum] At the end of the document there is the chapter "Colofoon" \Chapter{Colofoon} \useblocks[Impressum] So far so good. But after compilation with texexec --final of the document there is the following statement in the log file. chapter : 14 Colofoon textblocks : second pass needed No block "Impressum" is typeset. By the way I am using: ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21 fmt: 2003.8.22 int: english mes: english How is this to be explained? Willi

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alignment of numbered lists
by Thomas A.Schmitz 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

In Latex, the numbers in a numbered lists are aligned right by default. In Context, the default behavior seems to be left-aligned, which looks pretty ugly when item "9" is directly followed by "10." I can't seem to find how to change this. Any hints? Thanks, Thomas.

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beginner question re: counters
by Matthew Huggett 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Hi: I apologize for asking such a basic question. What is the correct way to increment a counter such that each time a macro is used, the counter is augmented by 1. So far, I have \newcount\MyCounter and have tried \advance\MyCounter by1 and a few other things I found online, but whenever I try to increase its value by 1, all references to it's value return 1. Not a particularly useful counter ;-) . Thanks, Matt

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