[ xdvi-Bugs-980432 ] P yields negative physical page numbers: Bug or feature?

Bugs item #980432, was opened at 2004-06-26 21:14
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Category: None
Group: cosmetic
>Status: Closed
Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Ulrich Scholz (hagbart)
Assigned to: Stefan Ulrich (stefanulrich)
Summary: P yields negative physical page numbers: Bug or feature?

Initial Comment:
I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature:

If the page number is changed using P then the print
dialog refers to negative physical page numbers.

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Date: 2010-09-20 16:49

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Comment By: Stefan Ulrich (stefanulrich)
Date: 2004-06-26 22:10

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Probably the `physical' is misleading in this case (it was
added to the dialog to clarify the fact that it's not
referring to TeX page numbers).
I've now removed it from the `of n to m' text.

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Comment By: Stefan Ulrich (stefanulrich)
Date: 2004-06-26 22:06

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It's a feature (or design decision): When you're at page x
and type `0 P', then page x-k is addressed as page -k by
both the `g' key and the from/to fields in the print popup.
(There's even a special case in the code that checks whether
P pages are in effect and prints `of n to m physical pages'
instead of `of m physical pages' in this case).

I guess one could call it a bug that the changed numbers are
not reflected by the page list, but the entire concept of
the `P' keystroke is a bit strange and should have been made
obsolete by the `Use TeX Pages' option anyway ...



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