> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:32:30 -0500 (EST)
> From: Aditya Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] A couple of questions on heads.
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> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Elliot Clifton wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Message: 8
> > > Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:20:31 -0500 (EST)
> > > From: Aditya Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] A couple of questions on heads.
> > > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
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> > >
> > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Elliot Clifton wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm typesetting a journal. I use \chapter to divide it into articles.
> > > > I've defined my own heads, and I need to redefine \appendix, however
> > > > despite reading the manual I cant get them behave as I want.
> > > >
> > > > Problems:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Each article may have appendices. I've tried defining my own
> > > > 'appendix' head to replace the default one, but I can't decide which
> > > > to use, should I derive from chapter or section? The problem with
> > > > using section as the base, is that the count from my previous sections
> > > > is inherited. I don't want numbers of the form 1.1, 1.2, etc, either.
> > > > I want to number my appendices independently, starting from 1 without
> > > > the chapter number. Also, I would like to use roman numerals.
> > >
> > > You can separate the appendices by a section block. For example
> > >
> > > % appendix is already a section block. By default, a section
> > > % block starts a new page, you may not want that in a journal
> > > \setupsectionblock[appendix][page=]
> > >
> > >
> > > % Change the conversion for sections in appendices.
> > > \setupsection
> > > [section-3]
> > > [appendixconversion=Romannumerals]
> > >
> > >
> > > \starttext
> > >
> > > \section{Test}
> > >
> > > \startappendices
> > > \section{An Appendix}
> > > \stopappendices
> > >
> > > \stoptext
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> >
> > Yep. Thanks.
> >
> > I am now using section blocks to create meta-sections, so that inside
> > the body-matter sections have no numbers whilst the appendices do. It
> > works great.
> >
> > One minor problem though. I need the appendices to have labels, like:
> > Appendix I, etc..
> >
> > \setuplabeltext[appendix=Appendix] does not work in this situation
> > what is the correct way of doing it?
>
> You also need to tell context to use the labeltext, by saying
>
> \setuphead
> [section]
> [appendixlabel=appendix,
> placehead=yes]
>
> % Make sure that \setuplabeltext[section=] is empty.
> % By default it is empty.
>
Thanks. That does the trick.
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