Command/setuplinenumbering

Summary

The command \setuplinenumbering is used to change the numbering of lines.

Settings

\setuplinenumbering[...,...][...=...,...]
[...,...]	name
start	number
step	number
method	page first next
conversion	name
continue	yes no
location	text begin end default left right inner outer inleft inright margin inmargin
distance	dimension
align	inner outer flushleft flushright left right middle auto
command	oneargument
left	command
right	command
margin	dimension
width	margin dimension
style	style command
color	color

Option Explanation

optional, for \definelinenumbering

step

only number every nth line

method

page	restart numbering on every page
first	usual numbering
next	omits first number on each page

conversion

kind of numbers, e.g. numbers characters Characters romannumerals Romannumerals text

continue

continue numbering from previous linenumbering block

align

alignment of the numbers

width

width of the line number

Description

Examples

Print the line numbers in a tiny font, not at normal text size:

\definepapersize[sheet][width=100mm,height=60mm]
\setuppapersize[sheet]
\starttext
  \setuplinenumbering[style=\tfxx]
  \startlinenumbering
    \input tufte
  \stoplinenumbering
\stoptext

Notes

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