Re: page numbering based on sections - is this possible

>Hello,
>
>Does anybody know of a way to change the way page numbering is formatted?
>
>We would like to produce a document that, 
>instead of using sequential page numbering 
>(1,2,3,4,.....), numbers the pages based on the 
>sections.
>(I.e., for the 6th page of Section 3, we would 
>like the page number to be '6-3').
>
>We have a very large document that we like to 
>maintain hard copies of, but the document 
>changes frequently, and it is not practical to 
>reprint the entire document every time it 
>changes, so we would like to print changed 
>sections only, and not have the entire page 
>numbers be messed up throughout the rest of the 
>document.
>
>Thanks for any info.
>
>-Duane

In TeX this is very simple
you need to define a counter which specify the section
\newcount\mysection
\mysection=1
then each time you call a routine called say 
\Section it will increase the counter
\def\Section#1#2 etc...{some stuff that you want 
and add the increment: \global\advance\mysection 
by 1}

then say at the beginning:

\nopagenumbers
\footline={\line{\hfill \the\pageno - \the\mysection}

that's it

ps:\pageno is by default a counter which count pages...


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