From anton....@gmail.com Thu Aug 23 10:42:55 2012
Anton Shterenlikht:
> I want the cover page to show no page number, the
> front page to show no number, and the first normal
> page to show page number 2. All pages after that
> I want to be numbered consequtively.
This is complicated and couldn't do it without fix-
ing mm. Maybe it's not working correctly.
The .PGNH is ignored because mm/ms.cov has:
.pg@enable-top-trap
which undoes its effect. To make it respect .PGNH,
I have modified m.tmac's definition of .COVER to
store the current setting in a number register be-
fore the corresponding pg@disable-top-trap is
called:
...
.el .ds cov*cov-type \\$1
.nr prev-top-trap \\n[pg*top-enabled]\"<--Added this line
.pg@disable-top-trap
...
and instead of calling pg@enable-top-trap in ms.cov
I am restoring the value from the register:
.pg@enable-top-trap\" I deleted this line
.nr pg*top-enabled \\n[prev-top-trap]\" and inserted this
To fix the page numbering I called
.hd@set-page -1
in the beginning of your source. Attached is your
modified example that looks as want.
My "fix" is probably a bad one, and maybe it would
be better to pass a parameter to cover indicating
the presence of another cover sheet and disabling
the header on the next page...
Yes, this works fine, thank you.
However, I'm very reluctant to mess with mm/ms macro
definitions locally. I'll live with the page number
on the front page. The most annoying thing was the
page number on the cover page, which is solved by
.hd@set-page -1.
Many thanks for your quick and helpful replies.
Anton
