disable page prefix in KOMA-Script (scrletter)

Question

The KOMA-Script package scrletter by default typesets the word "Page" (or language-dependent equivalent) preceding the actual page number in the footer.

How may this behavior be disabled, in favor of typesetting simply an unlabelled number?

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See related question for solution to this question for class scrlttr2.

Answer 1

You have to redefine \letterpagemark in the preamble to get the desired result.

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{scrletter}
\usepackage{blindtext}% only for dummy text

\renewcommand*\letterpagemark{%
  \usekomafont{pagenumber}{\thepage}}

\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{Max}
\opening{Hello,}
\Blindtext
\closing{Bye}
\end{letter}
\end{document}

Another possibility would be

    \let\letterpagemark\pagemark

Then the same output of the page number will be used for the letter part and the other pages of the document. Note that a possible redefinition of \pagemark must be done before this line.

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Explanation:

With KOMA-Script classes \pagemark serves to output the formatted page number. While the main KOMA-Script classes (scrartcl, scrreprt and scrbook) define \pagemark as

\newcommand*{%
  \pagemark
}{%
  {\usekomafont{pagenumber}{%
    \thepage}}}

the KOMA-Script letter class (scrlttr2) defines \pagemark as

\newcommand*{%
  \pagemark
}{%
  {\usekomafont{pagenumber}{%
    \pagename\nobreakspace
    \thepage}}}

So there will be the prefix \pagename in the output of the page number in KOMA-Script letters.

If package scrletter would redefine \pagemark to add the prefix, the output of the page number on non-letter pages would be changed, too. Therefore package scrletter defines \letterpagemark

\newcommand*{%
  \letterpagemark
}{%
  {\usekomafont{pagenumber}{%
    \pagename\nobreakspace
    \thepage}}}

and uses \let\pagemark\letterpagemark inside the letter part of the document.