Hi Aditya,
thanks for taking the time to answer this. And yes, I looked at what
ConTeXt has already built in.
On 12.01.2008 at 18:44 wrote Aditya Mahajan:
> I haven't looked at your code below. First check if one the in-built
> stuctural environments of ConTeXt do what you want.
As a matter of fact, I am using the following for all the heavy stuff
(implementing that in LaTeX is/was a REAL pain)
\definesynonyms[Issue][issues][\IssueText][\IssueDate]
\setupsynonyms[Issue][criterium=all]
\Issue[1]{Issue 1:}{Some Date}
\Issue[2]{Issue 2:}{\currentdate}
and if I just put the values in by hand, it works like a champ. Sorted
list and all. ;-D
Took me less than 5 minutes to implement (read: find in the manual).
Just gonna _love_ ConTeXt for that!
Now, with such a nice success (and because I have much more "counter"
stuff on the way)
I was feeling lucky ...
and spent the next 5 hours figuring out / searching on the web / going
over the source
how to have the "number" for each issue placed automatically, every
time a new issue date is set.
Yes, sure, I could just _write_ that in, but then I would have to
check myself,
which number is exactly the one I need, and not have the computer do
it for me.
But, hey where is the fun in that? ;-)
What this all burns down is, that I /really/ would like to understand,
how I can pass a value from a counter as (constant) argument to a self-
defined function. As that seems to be the core of the matter/problem
here.
Any suggestions?
Cheers
Carsten
>
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