Re: [NTG-context] A couple of questions on heads.

3 Jan 2007

      On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Elliot Clifton wrote:
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:20:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Aditya Mahajan 
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] A couple of questions on heads.
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Elliot Clifton wrote:
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I'm typesetting a journal. I use \chapter to divide it into articles.
I've defined my own heads, and I need to redefine \appendix, however
despite reading the manual I cant get them behave as I want.
Problems:
1. Each article may have appendices. I've tried defining my own
'appendix' head to replace the default one, but I can't decide which
to use, should I derive from chapter or section? The problem with
using section as the base, is that the count from my previous sections
is inherited.  I don't want numbers of the form 1.1, 1.2, etc, either.
I want to number my appendices independently, starting from 1 without
the chapter  number. Also, I would like to use roman numerals.
You can separate the appendices by a section block. For example
% appendix is already a section block. By default, a section
% block starts a new page, you may not want that in a journal
\setupsectionblock[appendix][page=]
% Change the conversion for sections in appendices.
\setupsection
   [section-3]
   [appendixconversion=Romannumerals]
\starttext
\section{Test}
\startappendices
\section{An Appendix}
\stopappendices
\stoptext
HTH,
Yep. Thanks.
I am now using section blocks to create meta-sections, so that inside
the body-matter sections have no numbers whilst the appendices do. It
works great.
One minor problem though. I need the appendices to have labels, like:
Appendix I, etc..
\setuplabeltext[appendix=Appendix] does not work in this situation
what is the correct way of doing it?
You also need to tell context to use the labeltext, by saying

\setuphead
   [section]
   [appendixlabel=appendix,
        placehead=yes]

% Make sure that \setuplabeltext[section=] is empty.
% By default it is empty.

Aditya