I have a book with parts and chapters; figures in the chapters are numbered 1.1, 2.1 etc. but sometimes a part has a figure in it as well, before the chapters start. The desired numbering for such figures is to follow the Part numbers, and be in capitalised roman numerals (in other words, Figure II would be the figure in the intro of Part 2). So I define a new clone of figure called Partfigure, and give it the necessary setups to make the numbering come out in cap roman; and I thought the easiest way of managing the number itself would be just to increment it each time \part is called. (Not every part has a figure.) But I can't seem to get the number to come out when I place the figure. Minimal example below (I have culled the actual \parts and just put in two increments, but the effect is the same). ---- \definefloat[Partfigure][figure]\definenumber[TrackingPartfigurenumber] \setuplabeltext[en][Partfigure=Figure ] \setupnumber[Partfigure][number=TrackingPartfigurenumber,conversion=Romannumerals,way=bytext] \setupcaption[Partfigure][style=\bf,numberstyle=\bf,headstyle=\it,align=middle,location=bottom] \starttext \incrementnumber[TrackingPartfigurenumber] \incrementnumber[TrackingPartfigurenumber] TrackingPartfigurenumber now equals \rawnumber[TrackingPartfigurenumber], which will display as \convertednumber[TrackingPartfigurenumber]. But it doesn't get used: \placefloat[Partfigure][here][-:PMRWFII]{A cow}{\externalfigure[koe]} Why not? \stoptext ---- I tried also \increment[Partfigure] but this produces exactly the same output. I also tried using ownnumber=true in the Partfigure setup and then feeding it the value {2} in the \placefloat call but that wouldn't compile. Where did I go wrong? I'm sure there is an easy way to do this. This one is a bit desperate, again, a very fussy author is waiting on it, so... Thanks all. Duncan