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From: Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@sil.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: getting text outside cropmarks to work
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:30:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52F26722.3020206@sil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FDE58A72-392F-4DA1-A43C-06033CD7132A@gmail.com>

On 2/5/2014 11:03 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 05.02.2014 um 16:45 schrieb Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@sil.org>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Under mkii we used to have a running footer that appeared below the crop
>> marks. Under mkiv I can't get that to work.
>>
>> The MWE I'm trying (with ConTeXt mkiv from the TeXLive 2013 CD):
>>
>> \def\TopText { Top Text }
>>
>> \def\BottomText { Bottom Text }
>>
>> \def\pagecutmarksymbol {\the\realpageno}
>>
>> \def\pagecutmarklength {.5cm}
>>
>> \let\pagecutmarktoptext \TopText
>>
>> \let\pagecutmarkbottomtext \BottomText
>>
>> \setuplayout[marking=text]
>>
>> %\setuplayout[marking=on]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \input knuth
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Code like this used to work for us in mkii.
> Redefining internal commands isn’t a good solution, what you can do is to use a layer to place your texts.
>

Thanks for your reply.

When you say "redefining internal commands", is that referring to
statements like

  \let\pagecutmarktoptext \TopText

?

AFAICT this is the recommended solution, both on the current wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Imposition#Cut_marks) and by Hans (http://context.markmail.org/thread/kpayudrtabsti76i) albeit several years ago; the current ref man (section 3.4 Page design / page composition) also lists marking=TEXT as an option for \setuplayout. If this is correct, how is one supposed to specify the text to display?

Am I misunderstanding the documentation, or is it just obsolete?

If we need to implement this using layers, does anyone have a recent
example of using a layer to place a running footer outside the crop marks?

Thanks,
Lars

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-05 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-05 15:45 Lars Huttar
2014-02-05 16:03 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-02-05 16:30   ` Lars Huttar [this message]
2014-02-06 15:12     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-02-06 16:23       ` Lars Huttar
2014-02-07 15:17       ` Lars Huttar
2014-02-07 15:21         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-02-11 15:38           ` Lars Huttar

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