Am 03.05.2012 um 06:58 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: > On Wed, 2 May 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> On 1-5-2012 21:43, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >>> Hi, >>> Line numbering does not respect the parameters given with >>> \startlinenumbering. For example: >> >> Line numbering is a delayed operation. As they are handled when the page is >> constructed the settings of that moment apply. In practice only the start >> key is handled when you pass settings to \start.... (the only reason for >> having the second argument is number start/restart etc). If you want >> different renderings, the best is to define a specific instance of line >> numbering. > > A little background: In the initial version of the vim module, I used to do > line numbering manually (each line started with \NL macro, which expanded to > a number in an appropriate style depending on whether line numbering was > enabled or not. When I rewrote the module to use the filter module, I also > rewrote the line numbering mechanism to use ConTeXt's inbuilt line numbering > macros, but I cannot get them to work. > > Consider the following example. I want to define an environment, which, > amongst other things does line numbering. I want the user to control the > style and color of line numbering, so I define keys numberstyle and > numbercolor, which are then passed on to the line numbering macros. The most > obvious implementation of this does not work. > > […] > > \appendtoks > \definelinenumbering > [\currentwhatever] > [ > color=\whateverparameter{numbercolor}, > style=\whateverparameter{numberstyle}, > ]% > \setvalue{start\currentwhatever}{\dostartwhatever[\currentwhatever]}% > \setvalue{stop\currentwhatever}{\dostopwhatever}% > \to\everydefinewhatever
You assume \definelinenumbering has a second argument for the settings but this isn’t the case and you need \setuplinenumbering to set them. Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________