Perhaps someone can advise me where I am going wrong.
I have no trouble getting roman numeral page numbers in the footer text in frontmatter with
\startsectionblockenvironment [frontpart]
\setupuserpagenumber [numberconversion=romannumerals]
\setcounter [userpage] [5]
\stopsectionblockenvironment
\startsectionblockenvironment [bodypart]
\setcounter [userpage] [1]
\stopsectionblockenvironment
\setuppagenumbering
[alternative=doublesided,location={footer,middle}]
But if I change to \setuppagenumbering[location= ], and choose, for example:
\setupheadertexts
[ ] [{\getmarking[chapter]\hskip1em \pagenumber}]
[{\pagenumber \hskip1em \documentvariable{metadata:title}}] [ ]
I get my header texts with page numbers in arabic numerals in frontmatter. I have tried various \setupheadertexts options, but I still get arabic numerals in frontmatter. The conversion does not work.
What am I missing or doing wrong?
Julian