On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mari Voipio wrote:

Hello!

I'm trying to place dynamic content on a layer and now it turns out that while getting a different pic every time is easy, getting the layers redrawn wasn't that simple. The wiki has this code:

\definelayer  [pagenumber]  [width=\paperwidth,   height=\paperheight,   preset=middle,   state=repeat]

\setlayer[pagenumber]{Page \pagenumber}

\setupbackgrounds[page][background=pagenumber]

\starttext \dorecurse{4}{\page[empty]} \stoptext

AFAIK, that should be a complete  minimal sample. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work, at least my ConTeXt MkIV of February 8 only gives "Page 1" on every one of those 4 pages... right, it's ok

How to fix this? Preferably on the "Dummies" level, I'd prefer not to see the bowels of my ConTeXt, if I can avoid it. going on on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layers you see

\definelayer [pagenumber] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, preset=middle] \startsetups layer \setlayer[pagenumber]{Page \pagenumber} \stopsetups \setupbackgrounds[page][setups=layer,background=pagenumber] \starttext \dorecurse{4}{\page[empty]} \stoptext Is that what you want ? -- luigi

Am 21.02.2012 um 12:00 schrieb luigi scarso:

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mari Voipio wrote:

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Hello!

I'm trying to place dynamic content on a layer and now it turns out that while getting a different pic every time is easy, getting the layers redrawn wasn't that simple. The wiki has this code:

\definelayer [pagenumber] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, preset=middle, state=repeat]

\setlayer[pagenumber]{Page \pagenumber}

\setupbackgrounds[page][background=pagenumber]

\starttext \dorecurse{4}{\page[empty]} \stoptext

AFAIK, that should be a complete minimal sample. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work, at least my ConTeXt MkIV of February 8 only gives "Page 1" on every one of those 4 pages... right, it's ok

How to fix this? Preferably on the "Dummies" level, I'd prefer not to see the bowels of my ConTeXt, if I can avoid it. going on on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layers you see

\definelayer [pagenumber] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, preset=middle]

\startsetups layer

\setlayer[pagenumber]{Page \pagenumber}

\stopsetups

\setupbackgrounds[page][setups=layer,background=pagenumber]

\starttext \dorecurse{4}{\page[empty]} \stoptext

Here is a slightly different version which is better when you need more dynamic layers. \definelayer [pagenumber][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight,preset=middle] \defineoverlay[pagenumber][\texsetup{layer}] \startsetups layer \setlayer[pagenumber]{Page \pagenumber} \tightlayer[pagenumber] \stopsetups \setupbackgrounds[page][background=pagenumber] \starttext \dorecurse{4}{\page[empty]} \stoptext Wolfgang

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 13:53, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Here is a slightly different version which is better when you need more dynamic layers.

Hey, I can get it to work. Will take more than a bit of effort to understanding it, but at least I got it wikified (hopefully correctly) so I can find it later... (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layers#Use_dynamic_content) Thank you, Mari