Marco, Thank you, I have opted for your solution as it was the one I most easily understood and it seems to do the job. One thing, though, it turns out the #pageno variable does not seem to work. I had to rename it to #1 to do the trick. Even #p did not work. Do those variables have to be numbers? Here is what worked in the end: \setuppagenumbering[ alternative=doublesided, location={header, margin}, style=bold, command=\PageNumberCommand ] \starttexdefinition PageNumberCommand #1 \doifoddpageelse {\rightaligned{#1}} {\leftaligned{#1}} \stoptexdefinition Thank you again. Malte. On 13/01/2013, at 2:20 AM, ntg-context-request@ntg.nl wrote:

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1. Re: Layer vs. overlay (Hans Hagen) 2. Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin (Malte Stien) 3. Re: Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin (Wolfgang Schuster) 4. Re: Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin (Marco Patzer) 5. Re: Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin (Wolfgang Schuster) 6. Re: Node for startbuffer. (Andre Caldas) 7. Re: Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin (Marco Patzer)

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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:25:15 +0100 From: Hans Hagen To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Cc: Wolfgang Schuster Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Layer vs. overlay Message-ID: <50F1643B.9030402@wxs.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250; format=flowed

On 1/12/2013 8:44 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Overlays and Layers are to different mechanism which are powerful when you combine both but first you have to know what each of them does.

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perfect explanation

Hans

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Message: 2 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:49:34 +1100 From: Malte Stien To: "ntg-context@ntg.nl" Subject: [NTG-context] Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin Message-ID: <6C558222-1692-4EF6-802D-D9A114ECC7BA@stien.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi,

I have a rather wide, 41mm, outer margin in a manual and I am trying to put the page number into the margin like so:

\setuppagenumbering[ alternative=doublesided, location={header, margin}, style=bold, ]

The trouble is that the page number is only a few millimetres wide and gets positioned on the inside edge of my outside margin. Hence, it does not end up close enough to the edge of the page. I guess, I would like to right-align it 4mm from the edge of a right-hand page and left-align it by the same amount from the edge of a left-hand page. Is that doable?

Thank you, Malte.

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Message: 3 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:13:09 +0100 From: Wolfgang Schuster To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin Message-ID: <49577A0C-5ABF-4C04-8D83-736879870306@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Am 12.01.2013 um 14:49 schrieb Malte Stien :

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Hi,

I have a rather wide, 41mm, outer margin in a manual and I am trying to put the page number into the margin like so:

\setuppagenumbering[ alternative=doublesided, location={header, margin}, style=bold, ]

The trouble is that the page number is only a few millimetres wide and gets positioned on the inside edge of my outside margin. Hence, it does not end up close enough to the edge of the page. I guess, I would like to right-align it 4mm from the edge of a right-hand page and left-align it by the same amount from the edge of a left-hand page. Is that doable?

Method 1:

\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location=]

\definelayer[pagenumber][doublesided=yes,width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]

\startsetups[pagenumber] \setlayer[pagenumber][even][preset=lefttop, x=4mm,y=\topspace]{\strut\bf\userpagenumber} \setlayer[pagenumber][odd] [preset=righttop,x=4mm,y=\topspace]{\strut\bf\userpagenumber} \stopsetups

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

\starttext \showframe \dorecurse{10}{\dontleavehmode\page} \stoptext

Method 2:

\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location=]

\setupheadertexts [margin] [][\rightaligned{\bf\userpagenumber}] [\leftaligned{\bf\userpagenumber}][]

\setupheader[margin][align=outer]

\starttext \showframe \dorecurse{10}{\dontleavehmode\page} \stoptext

Wolfgang

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Message: 4 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:23:03 +0100 From: Marco Patzer To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin Message-ID: <20130112142303.GI31752@homerow> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

On 2013?01?13 Malte Stien wrote:

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The trouble is that the page number is only a few millimetres wide and gets positioned on the inside edge of my outside margin. Hence, it does not end up close enough to the edge of the page. I guess, I would like to right-align it 4mm from the edge of a right-hand page and left-align it by the same amount from the edge of a left-hand page. Is that doable?

You can use the `command` key to hook in a custom macro which does the placement.

\setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided, location={header, margin}, style=bold, command=\PageNumberCommand]

\starttexdefinition PageNumberCommand #pageno \signalrightpage \doifrightpageelse {\rightaligned{#pageno}} {\leftaligned{#pageno}} \stoptexdefinition

Marco