User-defined page numbering in footer

[Marko Pinteric]

In the section with included external documents, style of page numbering
should be different. Eg.

Section 3. External documents Page 1/20 (1+6+5+8)
Section 3.1 Document 1 Page 1/6
Section 3.2 Document 2 Page 1/5
Section 3.3 Document 2 Page 1/8

The obvious solution to get this is to break the document in section 3
into sections and define footer differently for every section. The
second thing (footer differently for every section) is very
inconvinient, because there are plenty other informations in the footer
that should be the same over the whole document. Is there any solution
to leave the whole footer except "Page X/Y" part the same, and "Page
X/Y" part defined for each page differenty?

Thanks for answers.

Best regards,

Marko.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Should be possible is you use SectionPages rather than NumPages for the Y
field.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Yes, SectionPages will get you the 6, the 5, and the 8. You will need the
section breaks, but I *think* you don't need to unlink the footers, as
really
{page} of {sectionpages} is all the same footer, it will just produce
different info in each section. Be sure to set Format Page Number to restart
each section.

It's not clear to me whether you actually need the 20 in a footer anywhere?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Sorry for the typo. What I meant was that if you use SectionPages instead of
NumPages, you can use the same footer in all sections, without need to
unlink the sections.

 

[Marko Pinteric]

Sorry for the typo. What I meant was that if you use SectionPages instead of
NumPages, you can use the same footer in all sections, without need to
unlink the sections.

You did not quite correctly understand my problem. The problem includes
only four (4) pages, and counting part for these four pages should be
1/20, 1/6, 1/5 and 1/9. Is it possible to have the same footer for all
four pages and somehow put numbering part from the body text?

Marko.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

You did not quite correctly understand my problem. The problem includes
only four (4) pages, and counting part for these four pages should be
1/20, 1/6, 1/5 and 1/9. Is it possible to have the same footer for all
four pages and somehow put numbering part from the body text?

How do you mean, only involves 4 pages? Footers are per section, not per
page, so doesn't the problem involve 4 sections? If you only want the 1/6 on
a single page, you probably don't want to use a footer at all.

Anyhow, the three sections that you need 1/6, 1/5, and 1/9 for will all have
the same footer, {Page} of {SectionPages}. If the rest of your document uses
{Page} of {Numpages}, you will need to unlink at least the first section
from the rest of the document.

For the 1/20, I think you will need to have a differently defined footer,
that uses {Page} of "calculated page field that adds together the page
numbers from a bookmark on the last page of each of the other three
sections". Only I always forget how to set that up, so someone else will
have to tell you.

Personally, though, I think 1/20 is going to confuse people, because they
will think pages are missing, since the other 19 pages are not numbered as
such.

somehow put numbering part from the body text?

What do you mean by that? I don't understand.

If it is a reference to one of your original desires:

to leave the whole footer except "Page X/Y" part the same

No, that is not possible. The entire footer is the same, or it is unlinked.

 

[Marko Pinteric]

Personally, though, I think 1/20 is going to confuse people, because they

will think pages are missing, since the other 19 pages are not numbered as
such.

Well, this is the rule specified by the state, not by me.
Unfortunatelly, this means that things cannot be autmated...

Thanks for the effort,

Marko