I'm using ConTeXt with pdfeTeX to typeset a large manuscript, and things have been going very well, but I had to work around the following problem.
When I defined variables using the plain TeX methods, e.g. \newcount\Mycount \newbox\Mybox and started using these in my macros, it seemed to confuse ConTeXt about which pages were left pages and which were right pages. If I just blindly say \chardef\Mycount=200 \chardef\Mybox=200 then everything works. It seems ConTeXt and I were using the same counter. What is the preferred method for allocating variables (TeX registers) for my own macros? My apologies if this is a FAQ. I couldn't find a FAQ file for this mailing list. By the way, I am using the (undocumented?) option \setuparranging[2SIDE]. -- Miller Maley
