Re: Page count in footer

[Peter Samuel]

Jeff Kingston writes:
 > 
 > At present you can't use @PageOf in a @Use clause, but I've fixed
 > this for Version 3.02 (arriving very shortly).  I've also changed
 > DocumentLayout so that it automatically marks the last page with
 > tag last.page.  So in Version 3.02 you will be able to write
 > 
 >      @OddFoot { @Centre { - Page @PageNum of @PageOf last.page - } }
 > 
 > without any problems.
 > 
 > Incidentally, it took me two minutes to make these changes.  I
 > mention this because it points up an interesting phenomenon:  the
 > hardest thing about augmenting Lout these days is not writing the
 > code, it's the inertia that comes from having a large standard
 > environment.  Any Lout expert user could do what I did, but then
 > they would have an incompatible version of DocumentLayout.  However,
 > it's still possible to write a special-purpose package without these
 > problems arising, I hope.
 > 
 > Jeff.
 > 

When Lout 3.02 is released would it be possible to release a diff file
too. That will allow new users to get the full release and existing
users of 3.01 to quickly download only the changes.

Obviously this will only apply to small changes - I don't expect to
see a lout3to4.diffs file :)

A file that can be used with patch would be most appreciated.

Regards
Peter
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