jm wrote:

hans,

thank you so much! was finally able to solve my problem using your solution. :-) just one thing though, how do i produce "Figure 1.1" or "Figure 1-1"? Thanks so much for bearing with me. I still have a lot to learn a lot about ConTeXt. :-)

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