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:

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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?

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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:

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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

\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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