On Sun, 23 Feb 2020, Brian Barker wrote:
At 17:33 22/02/2020 -0500, Felmon Davis wrote:
imagine you have ten consecutive pages all without footer and unnumbered
except for pages 3, 5 and 7; on those pages you want a footer and you want
a roman numeral, for instance ix on page 3, xi on page 5 and xiii on page
7. inserting a number generates the same numeral on each page. ah, I guess
the trick is to do a different page style for 3, 5 and 7.
The usefulness of automatic page numbering, of course, is that you can modify
the text or layout of the document with the page numbers being preserved and
updating appropriately and not being displaced. If you need such a random
collection of numbers and the document is at a late stage of preparation -
when changes to the text are less likely - it may be simpler just to position
manual page numbers where the footer would be, without having any footer.
If you need a footer for other information on such pages but want page
numbers only on some, you can still do this. Create a Frame to contain the
required page number (it doesn't need to have any border) and ensure that it
is anchored To Page. Position the frame in the footer where is needs to
appear. Because it is anchored to the page, not to anything within the
footer, it will not be repeated within the footer on other pages.
The second technique is also more robust to changes in paper size, margins,
and so on, as well as to font substitution on a foreign system.
to report: I believe your solutions are probably in better accord with
the "principle of simplicity" than what I chose but I hadn't realized
the power of the 'manual page-break' function before and got
fascinated.
I made three page styles, 'Roman ix', 'Roman xi' and 'Roman xiii' each
with a footer but with the corresponding Roman numeral (but not as a
'field'). on reflection it probably would have sufficed to make one
such page.
I believe the author is satisfied, and I learned some valuable tricks
thanks to you, Rory and Andrew; much appreciated!
f.
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Felmon Davis
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