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% \relax is not always obligatory but treat it as a goode habit What I wanted to say by 'goode'? While it is not an English word (says the Oxford English Dictionary)

Hello, On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:10:37PM +0200, Pawel Jackowski na Onet wrote: there is Goode, Richard (Stephen) (b NY, 1943). Amer. pianist. Début NY 1962 (NY Young Concert Artists). Eur. début Spoleto Fest. 1964. Member of Boston Symphony Chamber Players 1967-9 and of Chamber Mus. Soc. of Lincoln Center, NY, 1969-79 and 1983-9. Won 1st prize Clara Haskil comp. 1973. Wide repertory and has recorded complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas. (The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music.) Doesn't sound too bad ;) Tobias

Hi, Matthew Huggett writes:

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I apologize for asking such a basic question. What is the correct way to increment a counter such that each time a macro is used, the counter is augmented by 1.

"Pawel Jackowski na Onet" writes:

Hmmm... It can happens for many reasons. Try for instance ...

General remark (not really concerning this thread): It would be nice if the original posters would comment answers like this one if this works fine or not. Since these mails are archived, other people might come across this post and wonder if this is a good solution or not. Just my $50^{-1}$ Euro Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

At 00:04 22/09/2003 +0900, you wrote:

\newcount\MyCounter \define[1]\MyMacro{ \global\advance\MyCounter by 1 \relax \number\MyCounter #1}

\starttext \MyMacro{Hello} \MyMacro{Goodbye} \MyMacro{Hello again} \stoptext --> 1Hello 2Goodbye 3Hello again

or, using pseudo counters: \define[1]\MyMacro {\doglobal\increment\MyCounter \MyCounter#1} or even \define\MyCounter{\doglobal\increment\MyCounter\MyCounter} Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------