Thanks all for the discussion. As a simple user, I think I must pass. All this complexity in my document text and setup is too much trouble and it seems risky (wjhat am I going to break?). Far less work to do a small check at the end.
What I was looking for was something simple that made for instance \at{page][foo] conditional, e.g. \conditionalat[when]{page}[foo] with ‘when’ is something like always onpage offpage onspread offspread never Typing \conditionalat instead of \at is what I as a simpleton user can handle… G On 25 Jul 2014, at 13:06, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 7/24/2014 2:03 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for your attention, Wolfgang: indeed removing >> \analyzecurrentreference >> from your example allows mkiv to typeset correctly and obtain the expected >> result. > > > .... > > yet another sparsely documented feature ... in beta: > > % tests/mkiv/pagestate-001.tex > > \useMPlibrary[dum] > > \setuppagenumbering > [alternative=doublesided] > > % new: \setupreferencing[doublesided=no] > > % old: \somewhere{backward}{foreward}[label] > % new: \someplace{preceding}{backward}{current}{foreward}{following}[label] > % old: \atpage[#label] > % new: > \doifcheckedpagestate{label}{preceding}{backward}{current}{foreward}{following}{otherwise} > > \starttext > > \dorecurse {20} { > \placefigure > [here] > [fig:#1] > {} > {\externalfigure[dummy]} > \dorecurse {20} { > ##1: \atpage[fig:##1] / > \doifcheckedpagestate{fig:##1} > {preceding} > {backward} > {current} > {foreward} > {following} > {otherwise} > } > } > > \stoptext > > if okay, then it's something to wikify ... should > \setupreferencing[doublesided=no] be default? (currently yes i.e. spread > aware) > > keep in mind that this kind of functionality once it kicks in (is used) can > result in a few more runs to get thing right and that there's always the > danger of oscillation as the text injected is dependent on the situation > > Hans > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________