[cl-typesetting-devel] Page n of m?

[Peter Seibel]

Bob Hutchison <hutch at recursive.ca> writes:

> On Sep 30, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Peter Seibel wrote:
>
>> I haven't really spent much time on this, mostly because I somehow
>> picked up the impression that it'd would be a pain. But maybe I'm
>> wrong. Is there an easy way to typeset a document and generate
>> something like a header with "Page n of m" in it where n is the
>> current page number and m is the total number of pages. I've got "Page
>> n" already but I have no idea to get the whole number of pages in
>> advance.
>>
>> -Peter
>>
>> P.S. A more complex version of this is something like cross-references
>> where I want to insert some text along the lines of (see page X) where
>> X is determined at typesetting time based on where some anchor ended
>> up getting placed. And of course there's the wrinkle that depending on
>> the value of X, inserting the text might change the way the pages
>> break. But maybe someone has solved this problem and I just missed it.
>
> And lets not forget about footnotes :-)

Indeed.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      peter at javamonkey.com

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