Re: how to put page X of N in header or top space?

[David Walther <david@clearbrookdistillery.com>]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 05:41:33AM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>\setuppagenumbering
>  [alternative=doublesided,
>   location=none,
>   page=no]

Thanks Wolfgang, that works like a champ.  Now I've found the documentation for
ConTeXt in Debian, it is tucked away in
/usr/share/texmf/doc/context/documents/general/manuals directory as a pile of
PDFs.  I have some reading to do now.  Thank you everyone for your help.

David

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>Wolfgang
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>David Walther schrieb am 14.08.18 um 22:44:
>>Thank you Wolfgang, that worked nicely.  Two artifacts I'm not sure 
>>how to address:
>>
>>I did page Page X of N, but in the output, it displays like
>>Page 2of 3, Page 1of 3, etc.  It ignores the space between the 
>>number and the word of.
>>
>>Secondly, when I use the doublesided and the {singlesided,doublesided}
>>alternative page numbering, it rounds up to an even number of pages, even
>>though the last page is blank.  When I just use the singlesided 
>>option I get 3
>>pages as expected, but it doesn't do the nice interior margins and 
>>switching
>>sides of page numbers.  Even context doesn't view the blank page at 
>>the end as
>>a page, because it doesn't print the header or footer on it.
>>
>>David
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>>
>>On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 09:32:29PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>>\setuppagenumbering
>>> [alternative=doublesided,               % doublesided layout
>>> %alternative={singlesided,doublesided}, % singlesided layout with 
>>>left/right pages
>>>  location=none]
>>>
>>>\setupheadertexts [My Spreadsheet]
>>>
>>>\setupheadertexts
>>> [] [Page \userpagenumber\ of \lastuserpagenumber]
>>> [Page \userpagenumber\ of \lastuserpagenumber] []
>>>
>>>\starttext
>>>\dorecurse{10}{\page[dummy]}
>>>\stoptext
>>>
>>>
>>>Wolfgang
>>>
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>>>David Walther schrieb am 14.08.18 um 18:28:
>>>>Hi, I am slowly learning ConTeXt.  I am generating tables and 
>>>>spreadsheets, and
>>>>transforming them into ConTeXt, finally got it working after a lot of
>>>>mysterious errors about missing } as macro arguments.
>>>>
>>>>I have read this page carefully: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout
>>>>
>>>>How can I alter the page number?  Is it in the header, or is it in the
>>>>topspace?
>>>>
>>>>I want this to be at the top of each page of my spreadsheet:
>>>>
>>>>My Spreadsheet (centered) Page 1 of 3 (right justified)
>>>>
>>>>And on even pages, the other way around:
>>>>
>>>>Page 2 of 3 (left justified) My Spreadsheet (centered)
>>>>
>>>>What is the right way to do this?  Is there an override and a 
>>>>blob of code I need to put into one of the boxes in the Layout?
>>>>
>>>>David
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