How can I remove the page numbers and margin using context?

Question

I'm trying to use pandoc and context to convert a markdown file to a pdf. The command I'm using is:

pandoc -t context -o sample.pdf sample.md

The sample markdown file I'm using is:

# Hello
* Trying to drop the page numbers

Which makes for a nice PDF, but has undesired page numbers at the top of the page. How can I get rid of the page numbers (see top of screenshot)?

Answer 1

Your self-answer works in principle but might render your document unportable, i.e. you might not be able to produce clean HTML output anymore. I rather suggest you create a new file preamble.tex with the content

\setuppagenumbering[location=]

And then run pandoc with

pandoc -t context --include-in-header=preamble.tex -o sample.pdf sample.md

Answer 2

Figured it out. Was able to do with including commands into the markdown file like this:

\setupheader[state=empty]

\setuplayout [header=0pt]

# Hello
* Trying to drop the page numbers