On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 17:38, Ian Castle wrote: > With OpenJade and the TeX backend, you can't know in advance how many > pages there are... it is TeX that actually calculates the final > pagination - and openjade has long finished by the time this is started. .... > 2) Work out an appropriate TeX sequence (if one exists - I'm > speculating) and emit this as literal text.
this is doable. LaTeX has a package "lastpage" which does it, by sticking a label at the end of the document which can produce the right page number on a second run. Plugging it all into JadeTeX would be hairy, though. I'm not volunteering to try..... -- Sebastian Rahtz OUCS Information Manager 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
