Thanks for your suggestion, but I didn't get it to work. In the end, I had recourse to some low-level stuff (caution, ugly code ahead!): \defineoverlay[info][{\getbuffer[info]}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background={info}] \startbuffer[info] \vbox to \paperheight \bgroup \vskip -1 cm \framed[frame=off,align=high]{\tt \txx "\jobname" - \currentdate [y,/,mm,/,dd]\ - \currenttime\ - \realfolio\ of \lastpage} \egroup \stopbuffer (code adapted from construction of Thumb index on the wiki) Which seems to be doing exactly what I want. Thanks, and best Thomas On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Peter Rolf wrote:
\setuplayer[LAYERNAME][repeat=yes]
\setlayer[LAYERNAME][x=??, y=20mm, location=c]{your status line}
x should be (CROPLeftX+CROPrightX)/2
not tested....