Talk:ConTeXt and Lua programming/Counters

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Forcing the Reset of a Counter

In 2015, there was a bug that counters were reset (by chapter, page, etc.) only when they were incremented.

To force the reset, you can increment and then decrement a counter before using it.

\definecounter[mycounter][way=bypage]
\setcounter[mycounter][10]
\rawcountervalue[mycounter]
\page                       % new page, mycounter should be reset
\rawcountervalue[mycounter] % no, it's not reset: you still get '10'

\incrementcounter[mycounter]\decrementcounter[mycounter]
\rawcountervalue[mycounter] % now you should get '0' because it has been reset

\definenumber or \definecounter ?

\definenumber etc. are obsolete aliases for \definecounter etc.