increment counter or variable?

[cleccese]

I was wondering if it is possible to increment a variable myself in a footer or header.

A footer looks likes this:

Page 10/(11 blank)

So I was hoping I could increment a counter variable myself in the footer or save the content of a counter variable to a text variable and add 1. I have a feeling this is not possible. I did create a second page counter to keep track of the blank pages but my numbers are off so I wanted to check for a shortcut before I tweak it.

folioct,\/(\,pageno1-ct+1,\ blank)\ obviously doesn't work.

[LynnHales]

Caroline,

I really think the answer will depend on which styling engine you are using. FOSI, yes you can. XSL, maybe, but most likely no. Styler, I really have not worked with, so I'll leave that to an expert.

So if you could let us know which you are using.

Lynn

---- Caroline Leccese <caroline@thecodesource.net> wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to increment a variable myself in a footer or header.
> A footer looks likes this:
> Page 10/(11 blank)
> So I was hoping I could increment a counter variable myself in the footer or save the content of a counter variable to a text variable and add 1. I have a feeling this is not possible. I did create a second page counter to keep track of the blank pages but my numbers are off so I wanted to check for a shortcut before I tweak it.
> folioct,\/(\,pageno1-ct+1,\ blank)\ obviously doesn't work.
>
>      
> ----------     

[ptc-1908075]

Caroline,

If you are using FOSI, you need two counters for this. Initialize folioct to zero and nextpageblankct to one. Increment them both in pageres. Output them as counters (folioct/nextpageblankct) or strings (folioct.txt[BO]/nextpageblankct.txt[BO]) on a rectobb page model.

I've attached PDF from my book in progress.

Good luck!
Suzanne Napoleon
www.FOSIexpert.com
"WYSIWYG is last-century technology!"

[cleccese]

Thanks, Suzanne!

I am using Styler 5.3 with FOSI edits.

If I want to reset nextpgblankct for each chapter, is this the proper form? I need to reset it before I can set the value to 1?

<reset resetlist="nextpgblankct"/">

<enumerat enumid="nextpgblankct" setvalue="1"/">

[cleccese]

I'm doing something wrong...

I'm getting Page 10/(8 blank) instead of

Page 10/(11 blank)

hmmm

[ptc-1908075]

Be sure to increment nextpageblankct in every page model where folioct is incremented, including blank pages.

[cleccese]

Can I ignore this error? I'm reseting nextpgblankct in some of the elements because the page numbers restart in each chapter.

Pagedesc counter variable "nextpgblankct" is modified in the styldesc

[ptc-1908075]

You can code the FOSI to reset the page number in the pageres for each page model. I've attached relevant PDF from my book.
Suzanne

[cleccese]

Thanks again, Suzanne! Very much appreciated.