Aditya Mahajan wrote:
\unprotect \def\addtocounter#1#2% #1 name #2 value
{\@EA\xdef\csname#1\endcsname{\the\numexpr\csname#1\endcsname+#2\relax}}
\protect
% To Hans and Taco: Should the above macro be added to syst-ext?
% Now lets define everything in terms of ConTeXt's counter macros
\makecounter{Points}
% % show the points on the right side \def\showP[#1]{\inright{\hskip 10mm \framed{#1} }}
\def\pkt[#1]% {\showP[#1]% \addtocounter{Points}{#1}} %
\def\nofPoints{0} % Number of points from previous run
\def\savenofPoints {\savecurrentvalue\nofPoints{\countervalue{Points}}}
% It is a bit boring to type \savenofPoints everytime
\appendtoks \savenofPoints \to \everystoptext
Thanks for your help. It's great! What I recognized is when I put this on layer for better placement of the header it doesn't work. Here is an example: \def\Schulaufgabekopf% {\bf \tfa \setupTABLE[option=stretch] \setupTABLE[frame=off] \setupTABLE[column][1][width=0.7\textwidth] \setupTABLE[column][2][width=0.3\textwidth] \setupTABLE[row][2,3,4][background=color,backgroundcolor=gray,frame=off] \setupTABLE[row][5][height=1cm] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD \strut \eTD \bTD \strut \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \AAnr \eTD \bTD Date: \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Name: \eTD \bTD Points: \hfill of \nofPoints \eTD\eTR \bTR \bTD Form: \Klnr \eTD \bTD Mark: \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD [nc=3, align=low] \tfxx Unterschrift eines Erziehungsberechtigten: \thinrule \eTD \eTR \eTABLE} \definelayer[kopf][width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] %Klassenarbeiten Kopf \def\AAnr{2. Schulaufgabe Englisch 2006/2007} \def\Klnr{10 \hfill} %\definelogo[SAK] [top][left][command=\Schulaufgabekopf] %\placelogos[SAK] \setlayer[kopf][x=1.9cm, y=1cm]{\Schulaufgabekopf} \setupbackgrounds[page][background=kopf] \starttext % Lets set 10 problems with different points \dorecurse{10} {\pkt[\recurselevel] \input tufte \endgraf} \stoptext What's going wrong? Thomas