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From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:31:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EB8CABC6-BA91-40CF-A5B8-D17C1B5FC470@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130112142303.GI31752@homerow>


Am 12.01.2013 um 15:23 schrieb Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com>:

> On 2013–01–13 Malte Stien wrote:
> 
>> The trouble is that the page number is only a few millimetres wide
>> and gets positioned on the inside edge of my outside margin.
>> Hence, it does not end up close enough to the edge of the page. I
>> guess, I would like to right-align it 4mm from the edge of a
>> right-hand page and left-align it by the same amount from the edge
>> of a left-hand page. Is that doable?
> 
> You can use the `command` key to hook in a custom macro which does
> the placement.
> 
> \setuppagenumbering
>  [alternative=doublesided,
>   location={header, margin},
>   style=bold,
>   command=\PageNumberCommand]
> 
> \starttexdefinition PageNumberCommand #pageno
>  \signalrightpage
>  \doifrightpageelse
>    {\rightaligned{#pageno}}
>    {\leftaligned{#pageno}}
> \stoptexdefinition
> 
> Marco

When you’re in the header you can just use \doifoddpageelse to set different
values for left/right pages, \signalrightpage is only necessary for text *in*
the document.

Wolfgang

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-12 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-12 13:49 Malte Stien
2013-01-12 14:13 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-01-12 14:23 ` Marco Patzer
2013-01-12 14:31   ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-01-12 15:20     ` Marco Patzer
     [not found] <mailman.297.1358004033.2489.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2013-01-13  0:28 ` Malte Stien
2013-01-13 10:49   ` Marco Patzer

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