On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 14:19:25 -0700 David Walther <da...@clearbrookdistillery.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 02:58:58PM -0600, Alan Braslau wrote: > >On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:44:43 -0700 > >David Walther <da...@clearbrookdistillery.com> wrote: > > > >> 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. > > > >You must have forgotten the trailing "\ " of "\userpagenumber\ ". > > Thank you Alan. That worked. I didn't forget it; I never knew it. I'm > starting to run into the area where the Wiki isn't enough, but I don't know > enough TeX to read the Context source for the macros. What is recommended to > get up to speed on Context? Should I go back and re-read Knuth's book on TeX > then try reading ConTeXt source? Last time I read it was 20 years ago, and > only got half way through; that was enough for my needs back then. I guess a > week or two reading everything on this page would help too: > > http://www.luatex.org/documentation.html > > Now just need an answer for the blank page issue and I can start shipping > these > spreadsheets to clients. TeX commands such as \userpagenumber "gobble" a trailing blank space, delimiting the end of the token name ("userpagenumber"). It can also be terminated by any non-token-name character or another token. So we generally write \userpagenumber\ . One could also write {\userpagenumber}, i.e. enclosing the TeX command within delimiters, and it is a question of taste what coding is more readable. \userpagenumber{} is also valid, yet I find this even less readable. You can learn much from emulation, paying attention to details, as Wolfgang had written \setupheadertexts [] [Page \userpagenumber\ of \lastuserpagenumber] [Page \userpagenumber\ of \lastuserpagenumber] [] One tricky point that might not be obvious, \setupheadertexts can take a varying number of arguments enclosed in []. The form above (4 groups of []), sets the left/right headertexts for even/odd pages. Whereas the single group instance \setupheadertexts [My Spreadsheet] sets the center text. Having three or five group versions gets unwieldy or ambiguous (the two group version sets left/right for singlesided layout), so having to make two "calls" to \setupheadertexts as above is cleaner, although was confusing to me at first. Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
