Check counter in styledesc?

[cleccese]

Is there a way to check a page counter in the styledesc?

I'm trying to do this:

<specval attname="wpfolioct.txt" attloc="#FOSI" attval="#GT#\0\"> or

<specval attname="wpfolioct.txt" attloc="#FOSI" attval="#NONZERO">

but I'm getting a message that the content of wpfolioct.txt can't be retrieved.

[ptc-1908075]

Pagedesc variables and styldesc variables are mostly kept separate. Also, note that textids are evaluated as strings not numbers.

You can test a counter in the pagedesc using a pseudo-element in the styldesc, and output gentext, for example. But you can't use the pseudo-element to change the value of a styldesc variable.




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e-i-c gi=psu






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And vice versa.











What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

[cleccese]

Hi Suzanne, I didn't want to change any values, just test whether the counter was >0 which would affect how I was building a string. But as it turned out I didn't need to check the counter anyway.