On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Am 2008-04-29 um 17:49 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: >>> I just tried the following on Context Live: >>> >>> \starttext >>> \startitemize[n] >>> \item one >>> \item two >>> \startitemize >>> \item a >>> \item b >>> \stopitemize >>> \item three >>> \stopitemize >>> \stoptext >>> >>> and the first itemize starts at 0. Remove the inner itemize and >>> it starts >>> at 1. >>> >>> Is this a feature or a bug? How do I get around it? >> >> I can confirm that here. This is indeed a bug. > > I reported some weeks ago that numbering starts always at 0 with --once > > I guess Hans & Co went after the dictum of Dijkstra[0], as quoted > recently by Knuth[1], that counting should start at 0 ;-) > > [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra > [1] http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
The reason for all these bugs of starting with zero is my reqest for a reverse key to itemize and then I could not foresee all the use cases. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
