Command/setuplinenumbering

\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

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
  
  

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See also

• \definelinenumbering
• page-lin.mkvi
• \setupparagraphnumbering numbering of paragraphs, completely different mechanism

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