Dear list, this seems a really basic question (and probably not even strictly ConTeXt-focused) - so please accept my apologies… I'm trying to construct a macro which first creates two labels in the text (\start/stopline and \pagereference) with the value of a counter as the label name and then a footnote which prints the page and line numbers of those two. Supposedly because of my limited understanding of TeX's expansion mechanism I haven't been able to get things working with this code: \setuplinenumbering[% location=inner, step=5, method=page, style=\tfxx, align=left, distance=1.5cm, width=0.3cm] \setupfootnotes[ location=text, numberconversion=empty, paragraph=yes, ] \definenumber[entrycounter] \setnumber[entrycounter]{0} \def\appentry#1#2{% \startline[line:\getnumber[entrycounter]]% \pagereference[page:\getnumber[entrycounter]]% #1% \stopline[line:\getnumber[entrycounter]]% \footnote{{\bf \at[page:\getnumber[entrycounter]]}% \inline[line:\getnumber[entrycounter]] #1] #2}% \incrementnumber[entrycounter]% } By now I tried to adapt a LaTeX-only-solution which Uwe Lueck suggested on the texhax-mailinglist some years ago (cf. http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2006-July/006599.html) but failed quite miserably. I also tried the same with plain TeX registers (\newcount\entrycounter \entrycounter=0 etc.) instead of ConTeXt counters. Could it be easier to stuff the \pagereference and \startline-commands into before= and after= of setupfootnotes? Could anyone please give me a hint on this? The purpose of this: I'm trying to use mkIV's page and linenumbering facilities for a critical apparatus (in this case endnotes with page and line references). As I didn't succeed with Hans Hagen's recent suggestion (cf. http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg49695.html) I tried this quick and dirty way. Although it's far away from being perfect (in an ideal world the endnotes should be grouped into one paragraph per page and of course there would be more then one apparatus and so on) this seems to be a first approach to me… Cheers, Daniel
On Jan 3, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Daniel Schopper wrote:
Dear list, this seems a really basic question (and probably not even strictly ConTeXt-focused) - so please accept my apologies…
I'm trying to construct a macro which first creates two labels in the text (\start/stopline and \pagereference) with the value of a counter as the label name and then a footnote which prints the page and line numbers of those two. Supposedly because of my limited understanding of TeX's expansion mechanism I haven't been able to get things working with this code:
\setuplinenumbering[% location=inner, step=5, method=page, style=\tfxx, align=left, distance=1.5cm, width=0.3cm] \setupfootnotes[ location=text, numberconversion=empty, paragraph=yes, ] \definenumber[entrycounter] \setnumber[entrycounter]{0} \def\appentry#1#2{% \startline[line:\getnumber[entrycounter]]% \pagereference[page:\getnumber[entrycounter]]% #1% \stopline[line:\getnumber[entrycounter]]% \footnote{{\bf \at[page:\getnumber[entrycounter]]}% \inline[line:\getnumber[entrycounter]] #1] #2}% \incrementnumber[entrycounter]% }
By now I tried to adapt a LaTeX-only-solution which Uwe Lueck suggested on the texhax-mailinglist some years ago (cf. http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2006-July/006599.html) but failed quite miserably. I also tried the same with plain TeX registers (\newcount\entrycounter \entrycounter=0 etc.) instead of ConTeXt counters. Could it be easier to stuff the \pagereference and \startline-commands into before= and after= of setupfootnotes? Could anyone please give me a hint on this?
The most important hint: please build test files that will compile. Take out anything which isn't relevant to your problem. Knowledgeable people on this list are quite unlikely to wade through code snippets. This page http://www.minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html is somewhat biased towards LaTeX, but you should get the drift.
The purpose of this: I'm trying to use mkIV's page and linenumbering facilities for a critical apparatus (in this case endnotes with page and line references). As I didn't succeed with Hans Hagen's recent suggestion (cf. http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg49695.html)
Again, please provide relevant information. "Didn't work" is not enough information - maybe the color of your mousepad isn't quite right, maybe you forgot a closing brace, who knows? Finally: is the format of your apparatus (endnotes) a requirement? You can try and search the mail archive for "linenotes" and have a look at strc-lnt.mkiv. This will build one (or more) apparatus at the bottom of the page; I'm not sure if those can be selected in endnotes. Thomas
First of all thanks for the advice and sorry for my naïve posting! Here's a test file for what I try to do. The problem is that the page- and linenumbers printed by \placefootnotes all take the values of the last reference. \setupfootnotes[ location=text, numberconversion=empty, paragraph=, ] \newcount\entrycounter \entrycounter=0 \def\appentry#1#2{% \startline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \pagereference[page:\the\entrycounter]% #1% \stopline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \footnote{{\bf \at[page:\the\entrycounter]} \inline[line:\the\entrycounter] #1] #2}}% \advance\entrycounter by1% \starttext\startlinenumbering This is a sample \appentry{paragraph}{om. h1}.\\ An this is another \appentry{one}{sentence}. \stoplinenumbering \bigskip Endnotes \placefootnotes \stoptext
Finally: is the format of your apparatus (endnotes) a requirement? Yes, unfortunately it is.
Thanks again, Daniel
On Jan 3, 2011, at 7:09 PM, Daniel Schopper wrote:
\setupfootnotes[ location=text, numberconversion=empty, paragraph=, ] \newcount\entrycounter \entrycounter=0 \def\appentry#1#2{% \startline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \pagereference[page:\the\entrycounter]% #1% \stopline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \footnote{{\bf \at[page:\the\entrycounter]} \inline[line:\the\entrycounter] #1] #2}}% \advance\entrycounter by1% \starttext\startlinenumbering This is a sample \appentry{paragraph}{om. h1}.\\ An this is another \appentry{one}{sentence}. \stoplinenumbering \bigskip Endnotes \placefootnotes \stoptext
Tricky. I can't figure out how to do it. First, the code you write can never work. You define a \newcount and set it to 0. Before your text starts, you increase this count, so now its value is 1. Then, you never touch this value again, so effectively, all your references expand to page:1 and line:1. (And, on top of it all, your file has only one line since \\ doesn't start a new line.) But even if you try to increment your counter within the definition of your macro, it won't work because it will be advanced and frozen by the time your footnotes are typeset. So this approach will not work, I'm afraid. I'm not sure this can be done in ConTeXt. Thomas
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Daniel Schopper wrote:
First of all thanks for the advice and sorry for my naïve posting! Here's a test file for what I try to do. The problem is that the page- and linenumbers printed by \placefootnotes all take the values of the last reference.
\setupfootnotes[ location=text, numberconversion=empty, paragraph=, ] \newcount\entrycounter \entrycounter=0 \def\appentry#1#2{% \startline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \pagereference[page:\the\entrycounter]% #1% \stopline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \footnote{{\bf \at[page:\the\entrycounter]} \inline[line:\the\entrycounter] #1] #2}}% \advance\entrycounter by1% \starttext\startlinenumbering This is a sample \appentry{paragraph}{om. h1}.\\ An this is another \appentry{one}{sentence}. \stoplinenumbering \bigskip Endnotes \placefootnotes \stoptext
Finally: is the format of your apparatus (endnotes) a requirement? Yes, unfortunately it is.
I am not sure what you want to do, but the following at least increments the references (in MKIV) \setupfootnotes [ location=text, numberconversion=empty, paragraph=, ] \newcount\entrycounter \entrycounter=0 \def\appentry#1#2% {\expanded {\startline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \noexpand\pagereference[page:\the\entrycounter]% #1% \noexpand\stopline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \noexpand\footnote{{\bf \at[page:\the\entrycounter]} \inline[line:\the\entrycounter] #1 #2}}% \advance\entrycounter by 1\relax} \starttext \startlinenumbering This is a sample \appentry{paragraph}{om. h1}. \crlf An this is another \appentry{one}{sentence}. \stoplinenumbering \bigskip Endnotes \placefootnotes \stoptext Aditya
I am not sure what you want to do, My simple idea - being a total newbie to macro programming - was to create an automation of the following, in which the unique numbers in
Thomas and Aditya, thank you both for your replies! As Thomas already suspected it was a mere typo that \advance\entrycounter lied outside of the macro definition - sorry for the unnecessary confusion. I tried to compile Aditya's attempt (MKIV ver: 2010.12.31) but receive the following errors: references : unknown reference [][lr:b:line:0] ! Missing control sequence inserted. <inserted text> \inaccessible the label names would be inserted by a counter: \starttext \startlinenumbering This is a sample % % wrapper macro would start here \startline[line:1]\pagereference[page:1]lemma\stopline[line:1] \footnote{\at[page:1] \inline[line:1] some comment}% % and end here . \crlf And this is another \startline[line:2]\pagereference[page:2]one\stopline[line:2]\footnote{\at[page:2] \inline[line:2] another comment}. \crlf \stoplinenumbering \bigskip Endnotes \placefootnotes \stoptext But probably my whole approach is completely out of the (Con)TeXt-Way of thinking… (May it be possible to collect the "endnotes" into various buffers and recurse over them at the end?) Thanks for the hints, Daniel Am 03.01.11 23:23, schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Daniel Schopper wrote:
First of all thanks for the advice and sorry for my naïve posting! Here's a test file for what I try to do. The problem is that the page- and linenumbers printed by \placefootnotes all take the values of the last reference.
\setupfootnotes[ location=text, numberconversion=empty, paragraph=, ] \newcount\entrycounter \entrycounter=0 \def\appentry#1#2{% \startline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \pagereference[page:\the\entrycounter]% #1% \stopline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \footnote{{\bf \at[page:\the\entrycounter]} \inline[line:\the\entrycounter] #1] #2}}% \advance\entrycounter by1% \starttext\startlinenumbering This is a sample \appentry{paragraph}{om. h1}.\\ An this is another \appentry{one}{sentence}. \stoplinenumbering \bigskip Endnotes \placefootnotes \stoptext
Finally: is the format of your apparatus (endnotes) a requirement? Yes, unfortunately it is.
I am not sure what you want to do, but the following at least increments the references (in MKIV)
\setupfootnotes [ location=text, numberconversion=empty, paragraph=, ]
\newcount\entrycounter \entrycounter=0 \def\appentry#1#2% {\expanded {\startline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \noexpand\pagereference[page:\the\entrycounter]% #1% \noexpand\stopline[line:\the\entrycounter]% \noexpand\footnote{{\bf \at[page:\the\entrycounter]} \inline[line:\the\entrycounter] #1 #2}}% \advance\entrycounter by 1\relax}
\starttext \startlinenumbering This is a sample \appentry{paragraph}{om. h1}. \crlf An this is another \appentry{one}{sentence}. \stoplinenumbering \bigskip Endnotes \placefootnotes \stoptext
Aditya
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