On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Elliot Clifton wrote:

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Message: 8 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:20:31 -0500 (EST) From: Aditya Mahajan Subject: Re: [NTG-context] A couple of questions on heads. To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Elliot Clifton wrote:

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I'm typesetting a journal. I use \chapter to divide it into articles. I've defined my own heads, and I need to redefine \appendix, however despite reading the manual I cant get them behave as I want.

Problems:

1. Each article may have appendices. I've tried defining my own 'appendix' head to replace the default one, but I can't decide which to use, should I derive from chapter or section? The problem with using section as the base, is that the count from my previous sections is inherited. I don't want numbers of the form 1.1, 1.2, etc, either. I want to number my appendices independently, starting from 1 without the chapter number. Also, I would like to use roman numerals.

You can separate the appendices by a section block. For example

% appendix is already a section block. By default, a section % block starts a new page, you may not want that in a journal \setupsectionblock[appendix][page=]

% Change the conversion for sections in appendices. \setupsection [section-3] [appendixconversion=Romannumerals]

\starttext

\section{Test}

\startappendices \section{An Appendix} \stopappendices

\stoptext

HTH,

Yep. Thanks.

I am now using section blocks to create meta-sections, so that inside the body-matter sections have no numbers whilst the appendices do. It works great.

One minor problem though. I need the appendices to have labels, like: Appendix I, etc..

\setuplabeltext[appendix=Appendix] does not work in this situation what is the correct way of doing it?

You also need to tell context to use the labeltext, by saying \setuphead [section] [appendixlabel=appendix, placehead=yes] % Make sure that \setuplabeltext[section=] is empty. % By default it is empty. Aditya