[xep-support] Total number of pages

[G. Ken Holman]

At 2004-02-06 18:00 -0500, Louis Meigret wrote:
>How can I print the total number of pages of a series of page-sequences 
>where these page-sequences may each restart at page 1 ?

XSL-FO 1.0 doesn't have any facilities to determine this.  All related 
facilities are based on page number, not page count.  Even typical "Page 
12/37" solutions are based on the page number of the last page, not the 
page count of the last page (consider that there may be front matter in 
advance of page 1 that would impact on the page count but not the last page 
number).

What you need is access to the formatted information as an XML file that 
then gets fed back into your formatting process.

I haven't yet looked at XEP's XML output generator, but it might have what 
you need to communicate the formatted information to the outside world.

Another method is to use a two-pass process utilizing parallels to the 
back-of-the-book index methodology we have made available on our web 
site.  In that methodology I "format" the angle brackets of an XML instance 
that records the formatted page information, extract the XML text from the 
resulting PDF file, and then reprocess that in a second step as a formatted 
index with page-range rationalization.  The PDF extraction uses free 
tools.  You could use this to record the page numbers of all the sequences, 
and then sum them on the second pass.

I hope this helps.

..................... Ken


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