Re: [NTG-context] Italic page number.

7 Aug 2012

      On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 09:39:24 +0200
Wolfgang Schuster  wrote:
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Am 05.08.2012 um 02:37 schrieb john Culleton :
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IMO the following code should result in an italic iii on the
contents page. Instead I get a roman 1.
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\startfrontmatter
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,conversion=romannumerals]
\setuppagenumber[number=iii]
\setuppagenumber[state=start]
\completecontent
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I have tried variations such as a single \setupagenumber with two
parameters, using \page[iii] instead and so on.
This ought to be a smple task: start page numbering on the
contents page with iii. But I haven't mastered it yet.
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
% You can use this instead of
\setuppagenumbering[numberconversion=romannumerals] % to set the
conversion of the pagenumber outside of the sectionblock environment,
% the first argument takes the name of the conversion which is
applied to the % userpage counter with
\setupcounter[userpage][numberconversionset=pagenumber]. % % You can
set a conversion for a certain sectionblock when you write the name %
of the block before the name of the conversion set separated by a
___:___. %
%\defineconversionset[frontpart:pagenumber][][romannumerals]
\startsectionblockenvironment[frontpart]
\setuppagenumbering[numberconversion=romannumerals]
\setcounter[userpage][3]
\stopsectionblockenvironment
\startsectionblockenvironment[bodypart]
\setcounter[userpage][1]
\stopsectionblockenvironment
\starttext
\startfrontmatter
\completecontent
\stopfrontmatter
\startbodymatter
\dorecurse{100}
  {\chapter{Chapter #1}
   \dorecurse{5}
     {\section{Section #1.##1}}}
\stoptext
BTW: Send next time a complete minimal example.
Wolfgang
Thanks very much. Playing with your code I discovered that if I use:
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 \defineconversionset[frontpart:pagenumber][][romannumerals]
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in your example then the following statement is not needed
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\setuppagenumbering[numberconversion=romannumerals]
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but not vice versa. So the last statement quoted is defective in some
way or so it seems to me. In any case I now have code that works. Is
the command \defineconversionset documented anywhere or do I have to dig
into the macro code?

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