Dear Hans and all contributors,

I really appreciate ConTeXt for the right way to obtain high quality documents. I'm a theoretical physicist and I'm going to write a book. I think ConTeXt is the right choice to work with a number of formulas, figures and cross-references. The visual quality of formulas is better than in regular LaTeX. The new feature with formula autosplitting looks also very promising. For me it is important to obtain the high quality without a lot of manual tweaks of each formula for each given document format and figure placement.

However, I have found a problem with references if I compile one component only. The references to formulas in other components have wrong prefixes, e.g. (2.1) instead of (3.1). Needless to say, the right formula references are very important.

I started looking into this issue. The references to other components are taken from the whole product as from an external document. It turned out that this is a general problem with references with prefixes to external documents. The prefix is stored in a tuc file as a reference to a section as a sequential number of the header in the document. As a result, the prefix from the external document is calculated using the structure of the current document.

Here is the MWE, which consists of two files:

foo.tex:

\defineenumeration[remark][prefix=yes, prefixsegments=chapter:section]

\starttext

Equations: \in[eq1], \in[eq2], \in[eq3], \in[eq4]

Sections: \in[sec1], \in[sec2], \in[sec3], \in[sec4]

Chapters: \in[chap1], \in[chap2], \in[chap3], \in[chap4]

Remarks: \in[remark1], \in[remark2]

\startbodymatter

\chapter[chap1]{Chapter}
\placeformula[eq1]\startformula x = y\stopformula
\chapter[chap2]{Chapter}
\section[sec1]{Section}
\section[sec2]{Section}
\placeformula[eq1]\startformula x = y\stopformula
\placeformula[eq2]\startformula x = y\stopformula

\stopbodymatter

\startappendices

\chapter[chap3]{Chapter}
\section[sec3]{Section}
\placeformula[eq3]\startformula x = y\stopformula
\section[sec4]{Section}
\startremark[remark1]\stopremark
\placeformula[eq4]\startformula x = y\stopformula
\startremark[remark2]\stopremark
\chapter[chap4]{Chapter}

\stopappendices

\stoptext

bar.tex:

\starttext

Equations: \in[foo::eq1], \in[foo::eq2], \in[foo::eq3], \in[foo::eq4]

Sections: \in[foo::sec1], \in[foo::sec2], \in[foo::sec3], \in[foo::sec4]

Chapters: \in[foo::chap1], \in[foo::chap2], \in[foo::chap3], \in[foo::chap4]

Remarks: \in[foo::remark1], \in[foo::remark2]

% any chapters and sections here

\stoptext

It is expected to have the same first page on these documents:

Equations: 1.1, 2.2, A.1, A.2
Sections: 2.1, 2.2, A.1, A.2
Chapters: 1, 2, A, B
Remarks: A.2.1, A.2.2

However, the bar.tex produces wrong prefixes to formulas and remarks. The output depends on the document structure of bar.tex, not foo.tex.