Re: [docbook-apps] How to get total number of pages in the footer?

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

I have run into one problem with last-page-number references.  If you are
using double-sided output and your content ends on an odd-numbered page,
then your last page reference will be to that odd-numbered page.  But the
page count ends on the generated blank even-numbered page.  I usually solve
this problem by turning off the page numbering on the last page, if that is
acceptable for the design.

I've also tried adding a page-master selected by page-position="last" and
putting an empty block with the last page id in its static content.  This
worked in Antenna House, but not XEP, I think because linking to static
content is not defined in the XSL-FO spec (or is it?).

Has anyone else solved this problem?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>
To: "'Sheldon Plankton'" <sheldonplankton@yahoo.com>;
<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:01 AM
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] How to get total number of pages in the footer?


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sheldon Plankton
> >
> > How can I get output like this ...
> >
> >                             page 2 of 10
> >                            END OF PAGE
> >
> > ... would guess I would do something like this ...
> >
> > <fo:block>
> >    <xsl:text>page </xsl:test><fo:page-number/> of
> > <fo:??????>
> > </fo:block>
> > <fo:block>
> > <xsl:text>END OF PAGE</xsl:text>
> > </fo:block>
> >
> > ... but I do not know what contains the value of the
> > total number of pages.
>
>
> See these posts:
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200507/msg00138.html
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200509/msg00187.html
>
> /MJ
>
>
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