On 16/10/12 06:56:03, trebol wrote: > I would like to start a chapter without page number, simply starting > the paragraph a few lines below normal, and then restore the page > numbers. > > There is a simple way to disable and enable the page numbers, without > touch the headers? I'm new in troff/groff, maybe I'm doing a useless > mess. > Also, I found the PN register in utp, but neither in the groff_ms page > or in the info manual. There are other interesting undocumented > registers?
I had a situation where the first page of each chapter had no header and the page number was printed as a footer centred; the remaining pages had no footer but the page numbers were printed flush against the outer margin in the header. This is a fairly common layout. I created two number registers at the beginning of the file: Print*Page*Hdr Print*Page*Ftr with initial values of 0 In the macro for the header I used a conditional to test if Print*Page*Hdr>0 before printing the header and , as the last step in the header macro, I incremented Print*Page*Hdr by 1. This ensured that the header was never printed on the first page but was always printed on subsequent pages. I similar manner I tested Print*Page*Ftr=0 to create the reverse effect. It gave me the added bonus that I could suppress the printing of either the next header or the next footer (for example, for a full page bleed) by resetting the Print*Page register(s) to 0 in the copy. I was also able to combine chapters into a single file because the Print*Page registers were reset to 0 at the beginning of each chapter. From there it was a simple task to include at the beginning of each chapter a conditional to add an initial blank page to ensure that chapters always started on a recto. The gurus may come up with a definitive answer but this worked for me. Robert
