[NTG-context] Two bugs with descriptions in ConTeXt.

2024-02-13 Thread SirColeman via ntg-context
The first bug is that descriptions interfere with the counters, resulting in the peculiar behavior demonstrated in the resulting PDF. Unless I'm mistaken, I think it happens because the head of the description is evaluated twice, thus incrementing the counter twice---at least, that's the only

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread SirColeman via ntg-context
>> This is wrong, the counter commands are official and the number variants are >> kept for backwards compatibility with old styles. I do recall reading on the ConTeXt wiki that \definenumber is maintained for backwards compatibility reasons. However, why then does ConTeXt fail to compile with

[NTG-context] An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-11 Thread SirColeman via ntg-context
Greetings all. I have a passion for typesetting. I found that currently the best typesetting systems are those that are based on TeX. Of them, there are LaTeX, and ConTeXt. LaTeX is very well documented and popular; ConTeXt, on the other hand, is apparently very powerful and capable, but is not