[dev-context] Counters

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 29.03.2012 um 19:23 schrieb Hans Hagen:

> On 29-3-2012 18:38, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> 
>> Am 29.03.2012 um 11:30 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> 
>>> On 29-3-2012 10:46, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>> 
>>>> To many names aren’t a good solution but when I have to make a decision I would choose \definecounter because it’s the name which makes more sense. The only thing (besides backward compatibility) is the \makecounter mechanism which use the following commands:
>>> 
>>> So will we drop the number ones then?
>> 
>> This would only work when you also drop \makecounter because it won’t be usable anymore when \definenumber will be changed to \definecounter.
> 
> Well, a direct consequence of removing all 'structure' from 'structurecounter' is indeed that we get \definecounter and therefore need to drop the ones in syst-aux (no big deal as they are only used a few times and nowadays we have more than enough \count's; we can always turn them into \definevaluecounter or so if needed).
> 
> Anyhow, I already did a lot of editing so there's no going back now ... I'm making a beta that you can check in a while. In the process \currentstructurecounter has become \currentsectioncountervalue and some macros got value appended as well.

It looks good and I will update my modules to use the new names but what’s with the following helper functions, will you provide synonyms for them or should I use these names (the commands are too useful to not use them myself):

- \strc_counters_register_component
- \strc_counter_setup_using_parameter
- \strc_counter_preset_using_parameter

Wolfgang