On 28 May 2025, at 08:56, Thomas Meyer wrote:

I would like to get my counter in the right and left margin of the bold scene title. How can I make this work?

And why can't the counter be incremented in the \definedescription? Or is it still possible?

The most annoying thing on the Internet is when you ask a question and someone doesn't answer the question but instead questions what you're doing and why. Well... :-) Is there a particular reason you're using \definedescription instead of the document structure that Context provides? Specifically: why not use \chapter for each act of the play and then \section for each scene? The reason I suggest it is that \heading gives you much more control over the numbering and position of the number and would solve the questions you are asking. Document structure is summarised here: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/_section and there is more on numbering options here https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Document_structure_and_headlines/Section_numb... You can use \definehead and \setuphead to create a replacement \Szene so you probably don't have to change what you've already written very much. Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

Am 28.05.2025 um 09:56 schrieb Thomas Meyer:

Hi helpers,

I have the following:

\setupbodyfont[cursor,12pt] \setuplayout[      backspace=1.5in,      width=5in,      leftmargin=0.5in,      rightmargin=0.5in,      topspace=0.5in,      grid=yes,      ]

\definecounter[Scenecounter][way=bytext,type=number] \setcounter[Scenecounter][1]

\definedescription    [Szene]    [headstyle={\bf\WORD\rawcountervalue[Scenecounter]}, headalign=right, alternative=top, hang=none,     before=\startnarrow[left=0in,right=.5in][left,right]\blank,     after=\stopnarrow\blank,%\incrementcounter[Scenecounter]    ]

\starttext

\Szene{Int. Café Glockenspiel - Tag} Sie  betritt das Café und sucht offenbar nach jemandem. \rawcountervalue[Scenecounter] %\incrementcounter[Scenecounter]

\Szene{Int. Café Glockenspiel - Nacht} Er verlässt das Café und sucht offenbar nach niemandem. \rawcountervalue[Scenecounter]

\stoptext

I would like to get my counter in the right and left margin of the bold scene title. How can I make this work?

And why can't the counter be incremented in the \definedescription? Or is it still possible?

If you need descriptions with a counter use enumerations, they are based on the same mechanism and add a number for each entry. Wolfgang