Hi, Incrementing the counter outside of the TEXpage should work.
Best wishes, Taco > On 9 Jun 2020, at 23:34, Alan Bowen <bowenala...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My efforts to set up a new page counter in the footertexts of a book are not > proving successful. The following code shows the nature of the problem. > > \definecounter[volpage][type=page, way=bypage] > \starttext > \setcounter[volpage][5] > \dorecurse{3}{\startTEXpage[offset=2pc] > \input ward > \blank[medium] > > \centerline{\red\tfa\rawcounter[volpage]\incrementcounter[volpage]} > \stopTEXpage} > \stoptext > > As you will see, the counter is not incremented on pages 2 and 3. > > I expect that I have missed something important. But what? > > Alan > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ Taco Hoekwater Elvenkind BV ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________