On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Elliot Clifton wrote:
> >
> > Message: 8
> > Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:20:31 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Aditya Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] A couple of questions on heads.
> > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
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> > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Elliot Clifton wrote:
> >
> > > 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
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