Thanks very much! All I had to do was include \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] to stop the page number being automatically included in the middle of my footer. cheers, Alasdair On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > > I'm trying to recreate an MS Word document in ConTeXt. The reason for >> this >> is so the final document won't stand out from the others too much, and >> also >> so that I can have better control over the layout. >> >> One thing I'm having difficulty with is the footer, which consists of a >> rule, followed by >> >> "Name of document on the left << space >> Page n of m" >> >> where "n" is the current page number, and "m" is the total number of pages >> and is on the right. Is there an automatic way of obtaining "m", >> > > > \setupfootertexts[Page \currentpage\ of \lastpage] > > > and what's the best way of preceding this footer by a rule? >> > > \setupbackgrounds[footer][**text][topframe=on] > > Aditya > ______________________________**______________________________** > _______________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/** > listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/**projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ______________________________**______________________________** > _______________________ > -- Blog: http://amca01.wordpress.com Web: http://bit.ly/Alasdair Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.mcandrew