Re: [NTG-context] Total number of figures/tables, etc.

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Author: Hans Hagen
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Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Total number of figures/tables, etc.
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Oleg Kolosov wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Is there are an easy way to get total number of pages/tables/figures
>> etc.? \getnumber[table] of \getnumber[figure] returns 0,
>> \getnumber[page] gives some irrelevant number. I've found command
>> \totalnumberofpages, is there are something similar for others? It would
>> be great to also automatically change the following word as in:
>>
>> 1 figure, but 2 figures
>>
>> Is there support for that in ConTeXt?
>
> No, but it is easy to define this on your own. To Hans: Is
> reading utilities not implemented in mkiv? The following works fine with
> mkii but not with mkiv.


in mkiv i load at everyjob time instead of everystarttext

this should work (patch in core-uti.mkiv) but i wonder why i used everyjob

% \to \everyjob
\to \everystarttext

> \def\noffigures {1}
>
> \def\savenoffigures
> {\savecurrentvalue{\noffigures}{\getnumber[figure]}}
>
> \appendtoks \savenoffigures \to \everystoptext
>
> \def\shownoffigures
> {\noffigures\ %
> \doifelse{\noffigures}{1}{figure}{figures}}
>
> \starttext
>
> This text has \shownoffigures.
>
> \dorecurse{10}{\placefigure{something}{} \input knuth \endgraf }
>
> \stoptext
>
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