Christoph Hintermüller schrieb am 23.03.2020 um 17:09:

Hi Wolfgang

On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 15:56 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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This is not possible but maybe the following is a alternative for you.

The tabulate can be used in combination with an item group to have auto generated numbers in a given column.

\starttext

\startitemize[a][stopper=)] \starttabulate \NI First entry \NC\NR \NI Second entry \NC\NR \NI Third entry \NC\NR \NI Fourth entry \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stopitemize

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I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if I want something which is not possible at all

I tired to ammend your above example as follows

\placetable[] [fig:somefig] {some caption} { \startuseMPgraphic{heap_add_start_with_3} input images/heap; \stopuseMPgraphic \startitemize[a][stopper=)] \starttabulate \NI { \useMPgraphic{heap_add_start_with_3} } \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stopitemize }

But id do get an "Undefined control sequence" for the \stoptabulate command.

Is it cause i try to use \useMPgraphic inside tabulate column? or is it something else.

You have to provide a *working* minimal example because the following dummy graphic works. \starttext \startplacetable[title={some caption},reference={fig:somefig}]     \startuseMPgraphic{heap_add_start_with_3}         draw fullcircle scaled 4cm ;     \stopuseMPgraphic     \startitemize[a][stopper=)]         \starttabulate         \NI \useMPgraphic{heap_add_start_with_3} \NC\NR         \stoptabulate     \stopitemize \stopplacetable \stoptext Wolfgang