- From: "Jacob Perkins" <address@hidden>
- To: <address@hidden>
- Subject: Re: urgent help with page numbering
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:54:04 -0600 (CST)
- Importance: Normal
Thanks very much for your help, and for a great piece of software. If I
can find the time, I will try to submit a proposal style (that will
hopefully be able to take advantage of the new page numbering).
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> > What you can do now is hack the way headers are generated. Take a
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> look at the "header-article.ts" package (C-x C-f header-article.ts
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> return) and modify the macros "start-page", "odd-page-text" and
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> "even-page-text" as you want them to have (see also "Insert ->
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> Header and footer"). You may want to replace <apply|thepage> by
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> <plus|<apply|page number>|xxx>, where xxx is an offset for the page
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> number.
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> This will change the displayed page number for the content, but will
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> it affect the table of contents at all? I can print the content out
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> separately without the toc, which gives me the correct numbering, but
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> I still need to fix the toc. Should the above hack do this?
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Yes, you are right, this does not take care of the table of contents. A
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more manual hack might be the following: put the title page,
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the table of contents, etc. at the end of your article,
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so that the numbering is correct for the main body.
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Next manually set the headers and footers for
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the remaining pages using "Insert -> Header and footer".
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I am currently working on a better way for dealing with page numbers. It
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will be in the next version. Unfortunately, it will only be released
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somewhere next week or in about two weeks; it is better to give us a bit
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more time for deadlines...
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> > I do not know what you mean by "executive" summary
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> It's basically a long abstract for those that won't be reading the
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> proposal in detail, ie executives.
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OK, so "section*" will probably fine for this (you may specify
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a title yourself).
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