Re: Page number offset in the texinfo.pdf file

[Karl Berry]

    Actualy, thats not what I'm looking for.

Right, I was answering Stepan's followup.

    I think the feature is called "PDF page labels" (pdfpagelabels, hyperref)

What does it do?
texinfo.tex does make pdf destinations on every page, if it's that simple
(doubtful).

    how do I tell texinfo to start with page number 1 and linear
    increase the pagecount in arabic numerals to the last page in the
    document?

I can't see any easy way to do this at the document level.  You could
try making a copy of texinfo.tex and commenting out this line in
\startcontents:
    \ifnum \pageno>0 \global\pageno = \lastnegativepageno \fi

I'm not sure if it will work or not, but that's all I see at the moment.

There is no direct support for this since that's not how documents are
traditionally written.

Best,
karl