Rephrasing/Clarifying Page Numbering Question

[mcowan at rcn.com]

First, thanks to those of you who responded to my distress signal yesterday.

Clearly, from the responses I received, I had not clearly stated my problem.  Guess that comes from being way too close to it and under the gun to get a boatload of deliverables out.

Anyway, let's see if I can make better sense of it today, as I still need the help on resolving my multiple page number types questions (brain teaser).

In my HEADER, I need the following (per our contract)
  Pages:  xxx (# of xxx)
     xxx = total page count of the pages in the document
     #   = the current page

The FOOTER needs to reflect the current page ...
  TOC, TOF, TOT, etc ... needs to be in small romans
  Chapter 1, page 1 (and following) ... needs to start with [restart with] "1"; however the header needs to keep a running tally of the pages.

So, let's say there were 10 pages between TOC, TOF, TOT, etc. -- numbered ii to x.
When I begin Chaper 1, the footer needs to switch not only from small romans to Arabic numerals but also needs to [restart] number as "1" ... while the header needs to reflect a running page count as, for example, "Pages: 120 (11 of 120)"

I solved the xxx part of it with the suggestion to make a tag (which I made as a pargraph tag named LAST PAGE and made the text white) and put a cross-reference to the tag in my master pages header.

In desperation re the TOC, TOF, TOT pages, I created individual master pages where I hard-coded the footer for page numbers ii to x.  Not the best way to do it, but a shorter workaround for the moment.
At least the footers said what I want and the header did what I want.

What I still haven't solved is the restarting the numbering from "1" beginning with page 1 of Chapter 1.

On the book window, when I do Document > Format > Numbering ... for Chapter 1, I say continue numbering from previous and I'll get the "Pages: 120 (11 of 120)" part to work.
What doesn't work is the footer part ... it reflects page "11" and I want it to be page "1" in the footer.

Will greatly appreciate anyone's thoughts or suggestions on this "brain teaser."

Many thanks in advance for your help / suggestions / thoughts.




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>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:30:39 -0400 (EDT)
>From: <mcowan at rcn.com>
>Subject: Multiple types of page numbering?
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>Does anyone know how I can solve the following problem?
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>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)
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>HOWEVER, the problem come in when our contract requires us to have the following in the header:
>  Pages:  xxx (# of xxx)
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>I got the header set up, but for the # it pulls from the number of the page in the document numbering format.
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>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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