Posted by mojavelinux on Aug 05, 2021; 8:36pm
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Counters-and-ifeval-tp8667p8679.html

You're probably going to find you get better support in the community chat at https://asciidoctor.zulipchat.com. That's where most of the community hangs out.

The short answer to your question is that how you're attempting to use counters is outside the scope of what they were intended to do. Counters are essentially for making a sequence of numbers or letters in the output document. The primary example is a column that presents a sequence of numbers. Once you start setting and unsetting them during parsing, the behavior is unspecified.

Best Regards,

-Dan