Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Total number of pages in dsssl ?

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Yann Dirson <ydirson@alcove.fr> was heard to say:
| I'd like to get a page numbering like "page 1 of 10", and can't find a
| documented way of getting the number of pages in an element.  I found

Jade can't. It doesn't actually do the formatting so it doesn't know.
The best you can do, I think, is put an <anchor> at the end of your
document and tweak the page-numbering code to print the page number on
which that element occurs.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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