Possible feature - counts within each section

[ccaprani]

Thank you for the wonderful work!

Is it possible to expose the internal counters to yield the total count within each \refsection?

I had a go with defining

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\accessbpl}[1]{%
  \csname bpl@#1\endcsname%
}
\makeatother

and trying

     Count is \accessbpl{itemtotal} or is it \theplnumgroup or even \accessbpl{savesecitems}

but no joy.

[jspitz]

No, it's not possible currently. We'd need to write the counter values to an aux file, which we currently only do on reverse numbering. What is your use case?

[ccaprani]

Interesting. I've seen some resumes with counts of various publication types in an intro or section heading. Just wondered if it could be pulled from those counters. It's no big deal. Cheers!

[jspitz]

Proof of concept: With either plnumbering=global-descending or plnumbering=local-descending (where we write that aux file), you can try:

\makeatletter
\newcommand*\GetSectionCount[1]{%
  \csuse{bpl@secitems:#1}%
}
\makeatother

and in the body e.g.:

\GetSectionCount{1}

for the respective section (here: first one).

Is that principally what you are looking for?

[jspitz]

I have now added \GetTotalCount and \GetSectionCount[section] (with an optional argument; if this is omitted, the current section is used). This should work in all cases. Please test if you can.

[ccaprani]

That's awesome! It just works; both commands. Thank you! It's such a great package :-)

[jspitz]

Thanks for testing! It'll be in the next release.

[jspitz]

V. 2.5 has been submitted to CTAN.