Re: first-page-number set to negative number

[Mats Bengtsson]

Neil Thornock wrote:
> I do remember trying this before, though, and wanting to get rid of 
> the negative numbers, so that the page numbers will start on page 
> number 1 (not -2 or whatever).  But I can't find how to do that.  I'm 
> using oddHeader and evenHeader markup for the page numbers at this 
> point.  It seems I should be able to turn page numbers off until a 
> certain page...
Here's one solution.

\paper{

#(define (print-positive-page-number layout props arg)
  (if (> (chain-assoc-get 'page:page-number props -1) 0)
      (create-page-number-stencil layout props arg)
      empty-stencil))

oddHeaderMarkup = \markup
\fill-line {
 %% force the header to take some space, otherwise the
 %% page layout becomes a complete mess.
 " "
 \on-the-fly #not-first-page \fromproperty #'header:instrument
 \on-the-fly #print-positive-page-number \fromproperty 
#'page:page-number-string
}

evenHeaderMarkup = \markup
\fill-line {
 \on-the-fly #print-positive-page-number \fromproperty 
#'page:page-number-string
 \on-the-fly #not-first-page \fromproperty #'header:instrument
 " "
}
 first-page-number = -1
}

\relative {
c1 \pageBreak
c1 \pageBreak
c1 \pageBreak
c1 \pageBreak
}

   /Mats