Counters

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Countext provides a higher layer of API to access various counters. For example, to set the page number to a certain value use

 \setnumber[page]{1}

Other useful commands for working with counters are

    \resetnumber    [page]
    \incrementnumber[page]
    \decrementnumber[page]
    \savenumber     [page]
    \restorenumber  [page]
    \getnumber      [page]

Coupling Counters

Two counters can be coupled by

 \definecounter[one]
 \definecounter[two][one]

For example

\definenumber[one]
\definenumber[two][one]


Default value of counter one: \getnumber[one]

We increment counter two
\incrementnumber[two]

New value of counter one: \getnumber[one]

Names of Commonly Used Counters

• page for pagenumbers
• formula for formulanumbers
• table for tables
• figure for figures