Re: [NTG-context] how to put page X of N in header or top space?
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
Wolfgang
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
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
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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Re: [NTG-context] how to put page X of N in header or top space?
\setuppagenumbering
[alternative=doublesided,
location=none,
page=no]
Wolfgang
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
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
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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Re: [NTG-context] how to put page X of N in header or top space?
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 14:19:25 -0700
David Walther 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 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
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Re: [NTG-context] how to put page X of N in header or top space?
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 02:58:58PM -0600, Alan Braslau wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:44:43 -0700 David Walther 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. David ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] how to put page X of N in header or top space?
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 13:44:43 -0700 David Walther 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\ ". 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] how to put page X of N in header or top space?
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
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
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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Re: [NTG-context] how to put page X of N in header or top space?
\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
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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