Hi Alan, Sorry, I should have actually tried your MWE. You do *not* want way=bypage here, as that resets the counter to one at the start of the next page (it is useful for footnotes that are numbered per-page, but not for actual page counters).
\definecounter[volpage][type=page] \starttext \setcounter[volpage][5] \dorecurse{3}{\startTEXpage[offset=2pc] \input ward \blank[medium] \centerline{\red\tfa\rawcounter[volpage]\incrementcounter[volpage]} \stopTEXpage} \stoptext > On 10 Jun 2020, at 15:05, Alan Bowen <bowenala...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, Taco— > > Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried it with \incrementcounter before and > after the TEXpage. Sadly, neither worked. > > This mwe is an attempt to capture the failure of the following in processing > a product with numerous components: > > \definecounter[volpage][type=page, way=bypage] > \setupfootertexts[text] > [] > [{\centerline{\raise\NumberRaise\hbox{\rawcounter[volpage]}} > \incrementcounter[volpage]}] > [{\centerline{\raise\NumberRaise\hbox{\rawcounter[volpage]}} > \incrementcounter[volpage]}] > [] > > If your suggestion had worked, I would have had difficulty in applying it. > > Alan > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 3:14 AM Taco Hoekwater <t...@elvenkind.com> wrote: > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________