Multiple types of page numbering?

[Van Boening, Tammy]

Well,

This will require some new paragraph tags to be set up, but it can work. Let me understand one thing first - do you want page # of total pages in the book, or page # of page (based on page count in the file)? I think you want the first one, so:

For the first scenario (page # of total page count in the book)

1.) Go the absolute last page in the document. Open the master page for this document. Click in an appropriate place in the header (it must be a blank area) and add the variable Page Count. (Special > Variable > Page Count).
2.) Now, select this variable in the header, press Control/M to bring up the paragraph designer, and keep everything the same about this variable as the rest of the font in the header, with the following exception - change the color to white (so it doesn't show) and make this a new paragraph tag and call it something like TotalPageCount.
3.)Then, for every header on every master page in every file, add this information: Page # of <x-ref to total page count>, where

"Page" is free text that you manually enter
"#" is the variable Current Page # (Special > Variable > Current Page #>
"of" is free text that you manually enter
<x-ref to total page count> is a cross-reference that you have created called something like TotalPageCount, it's format is <$paratext><Default ¶ Font>, and it x-refs the TotalPageCount paragraph tag that you set up on the last page of the last file in the book. 

You can then apply either a character tag or a paragraph tag to set this output from the cross-reference to the numbering format that you want.

Let me know if this makes any sense at all.

TVB   


Tammy L. Van Boening
Engineering Technical Writer
Fiserv Insurance Solutions 
Property and Casualty Division
303-729-7733
tammy.vanboening at fiserv.com
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Subject: Multiple types of page numbering?


Does anyone know how I can solve the following problem?

Document needs to have the typical page number with small romans for the TOC, TOF, etc and Arabic numbering for the other chapters in the book.  (That's no problem)

HOWEVER, the problem come in when our contract requires us to have the following in the header:
  Pages:  xxx (# of xxx)

I got the header set up, but for the # it pulls from the number of the page in the document numbering format.

Help???
I'm sure there's a way to do what I want in FM, but I just haven't figured it out.
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