Increment an item number?
What is the ConTeXt version of the LaTeX \addtocounter{enumi}{1} ? I want to increment my numbering in an itemize environment, so that the list is typeset as 1. First item 2. Next item 3. Another item 5. Yet another 6. And so on I'm typing out solutions to questions in some student notes, and the missing item is a question for which a written solution is not necessary. Thanks, Alasdair -- Blog: http://amca01.wordpress.com Web: http://sites.google.com/site/amca01/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.mcandrew
Hi Alasdair, Maybe the following gives you what you want? \starttext \startitemize[n] \item First question \phantom{\item } \item Third question \phantom{\item } \item Fifth question \item Sixth question \stopitemize \stoptext Best regards: OK On 14 févr. 2012, at 06:27, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
What is the ConTeXt version of the LaTeX
\addtocounter{enumi}{1} ?
I want to increment my numbering in an itemize environment, so that the list is typeset as
1. First item 2. Next item 3. Another item 5. Yet another 6. And so on
I'm typing out solutions to questions in some student notes, and the missing item is a question for which a written solution is not necessary.
Thanks, Alasdair
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On 14-2-2012 13:39, Otared Kavian wrote:
\starttext \startitemize[n] \item First question \phantom{\item } \item Third question \phantom{\item } \item Fifth question \item Sixth question \stopitemize \stoptext
or something \starttext \startitemize[n] \item First question \incrementnumber[itemgroup:itemize] \item Third question \incrementnumber[itemgroup:itemize] \item Fifth question \item Sixth question \stopitemize \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 2/14/12 1:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
\starttext \startitemize[n] \item First question \phantom{\item } \item Third question \phantom{\item } \item Fifth question \item Sixth question \stopitemize \stoptext
or something
\starttext \startitemize[n] \item First question \incrementnumber[itemgroup:itemize] \item Third question \incrementnumber[itemgroup:itemize] \item Fifth question \item Sixth question \stopitemize \stoptext
Just a hint: however you do it, I think this is not the best approach. you write:
I'm typing out solutions to questions in some student notes, and the missing item is a question for which a written solution is not necessary.
If this is a recurrent task, i.e. if you regularly make up student problems and then typeset the solutions, this approach is inefficient because you're doing the book keeping yourself. If, for example, you decide to delete one of the questions without written solution, you will have to delete the \incrementnumber as well. It may be better if you let ConTeXt do the book keeping: give every question a unique identitfier like so \startitem[p:1:2] Problem? \stopitem and then typeset the solutions by referring back to this identifier: \sym{\in[p:1:2]} That way, the numbers in problems and solutions will always be correct, even if you rearrange etc. (I often typeset such exercise stylesheets, and after many years, that's my approach today.) Thomas
Thanks for the answers. I did in fact know about \incrementnumber, but I couldn't find any information about the counter. Where would I find such information, aside from asking on this mailgroup? As for identifying each question and referring to it: that is an excellent solution, but in fact I have only rarely to leave out an answer, and the small amount of bookkeeping required is not at all onerous. Thanks again, Alasdair On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz < thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
On 2/14/12 1:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
\starttext
\startitemize[n] \item First question \phantom{\item } \item Third question \phantom{\item } \item Fifth question \item Sixth question \stopitemize \stoptext
or something
\starttext \startitemize[n] \item First question \incrementnumber[itemgroup:**itemize] \item Third question \incrementnumber[itemgroup:**itemize] \item Fifth question \item Sixth question \stopitemize \stoptext
Just a hint: however you do it, I think this is not the best approach. you write:
I'm typing out solutions to questions in some student notes, and the
missing item is a question for which a written solution is not necessary.
If this is a recurrent task, i.e. if you regularly make up student problems and then typeset the solutions, this approach is inefficient because you're doing the book keeping yourself. If, for example, you decide to delete one of the questions without written solution, you will have to delete the \incrementnumber as well. It may be better if you let ConTeXt do the book keeping: give every question a unique identitfier like so
\startitem[p:1:2] Problem? \stopitem
and then typeset the solutions by referring back to this identifier:
\sym{\in[p:1:2]}
That way, the numbers in problems and solutions will always be correct, even if you rearrange etc. (I often typeset such exercise stylesheets, and after many years, that's my approach today.)
Thomas
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