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?