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Header or footer text suppressed

You put the page number in a center slot and also set text for that same slot, so the text is dropped with a warning — the two can't share the position.

What it looks like

# pandoc.yaml
footer-text: "A Novel"
page-number-position: footer:center

WARN: page-number-position occupies footer:center on recto; footer-text suppressed on recto
WARN: page-number-position occupies footer:center on verso; footer-text suppressed on verso

What it means

A header or footer row has one center slot. When the page number sits there, there's no room for center text in the same row, so Keystone keeps the number and drops the text — once per page side (recto and verso), hence two warnings. Nothing is lost silently; the build continues without that text.

(PDF only.)

How to fix

  • Move the page number to another slot (e.g. footer:outer), or
  • Put the text in the other row — center text in the header if the number is in the footer center.
  • See Running headers & footers.