Am 05.02.2014 um 17:30 schrieb Lars Huttar :

On 2/5/2014 11:03 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Am 05.02.2014 um 16:45 schrieb Lars Huttar :

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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?

\setuppapersize[A4][A3] \setuplayout[location=middle,marking=on] \setupbodyfont[modern] \definelayer[cropmark][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=cropmark] \setlayer[cropmark][preset=middlebottom,y=-\lineheight]{Bottom Text} \setlayer[cropmark][preset=middletop,y=-\lineheight]{Top Text} \starttext \input knuth \stoptext Wolfgang

On 2/6/2014 10:12 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Am 05.02.2014 um 17:30 schrieb Lars Huttar mailto:lars_huttar@sil.org>:

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... 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?

\setuppapersize[A4][A3]

\setuplayout[location=middle,marking=on]

\setupbodyfont[modern]

\definelayer[cropmark][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]

\setupbackgrounds[page][background=cropmark]

\setlayer[cropmark][preset=middlebottom,y=-\lineheight]{Bottom Text} \setlayer[cropmark][preset=middletop,y=-\lineheight]{Top Text}

\starttext \input knuth \stoptext

This works for one page, but when I increase the length of the text to take multiple pages, the top and bottom text only appears on the first page. (Again, using ConTeXt version 2013.05.28 00:36 from the TeX Live CD.) How do you make layers, or backgrounds, appear on every page? Thanks, Lars

On 2/7/2014 10:21 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Am 07.02.2014 um 16:17 schrieb Lars Huttar :

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This works for one page, but when I increase the length of the text to take multiple pages, the top and bottom text only appears on the first page. (Again, using ConTeXt version 2013.05.28 00:36 from the TeX Live CD.) How do you make layers, or backgrounds, appear on every page?

Add “state=repeat” to \definelayer:

\definelayer[cropmark][state=repeat,width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]

It works for me. Thanks again! Lars