Hans Hagen wrote: > Context offers \newcount and \newbox (although the implementation is > adapted to etex's >256 register count; i don't use the original etex macros). > > So, there must be something else going on. How does the macro that uses the > counter look? Maybe there is some unsafe testing going on there (lookahead > problem).
Thank you, this answers my question, and made me realize where my bug was. Things are now working as expected, but perhaps there is a better solution than the hack I came up with. My real question is this: Suppose I want to format something (a table, a section title) differently depending on whether it appears on a left or right page. I promise that the two formats (left/right) will behave the same with regard to page breaking. What is the cleanest way to do this? My idea was to (1) use the cross-reference mechanism to make a self-reference, (2) extract the page number from the reference into a counter and (3) test it with \ifodd. Step (2) was a bit tricky, and my solution unfortunately relies on ConTeXt internal macros (\doifreferencefoundelse, etc.). -- Miller Maley
