Re: How to display the previous page number

Thank you very much, appreciate your quick and useful reply.
Regards,
Ranjitha Rao

From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re:  How to display the previous page number
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:23:19 -0500

Arithmetic is not allowed on page numbers in XSL-FO.

Unless a vendor provides for you an extension for you to use, you are only able to access the current page number or a cited page number, not an algorithmically-determined page number.

The suggested solution would add the following to the bottom of the page:

3 - 1 // 3

I hope this helps (though I realize it doesn't give you what you want).

. . . . . . . . . Ken

At 2007-02-27 20:56 +0530, Mukul Gandhi wrote:

I think, you can use the '-' operator to accomplish this (shown below):

<fo:page-number/> - 1 // <fo:page-number/>

but if you need to handle page 1 in a special way, where if you do not
want to display '0 //' before 1, this simple way may be difficult to
handle this case.

I am not a good expert here, but this hint might help you get started.

On 2/27/07, Ranjitha Murthy Rao <ranjithamrao@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I need to display the page number in the following format :
<previous_pageNumber> // <current_page Number>

For example:
On page 3, I need to display:
2 // 3
and on page 5
4 //5

We are using for 0.20.4 and xsl version 1.0
Thanks in advance,
Ranjitha Rao

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