Start showing page numbers on pages greater than "X"

[Paul Morris]

Hi all,  Recently I ran into the problem of having more than one page of
prefatory material (a cover page and a table of contents), and I wanted to
start showing page numbers on the first page of music (starting with 1).  

Below is the solution I came up with, by borrowing and modifying a function
from the LilyPond source code, shown with a version of the example in the
docs here:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/custom-titles-headers-and-footers#custom-layout-for-headers-and-footers

Is this the best way to do this?  If so would it make sense to add it to the
LSR or possibly add the "on-page-greater-than" function to LilyPond?

-Paul


\version "2.18.0"

% modified version of "on-page" from "titling-init.ly" in LilyPond source
#(define ((on-page-greater-than nmbr) layout props arg)
   (if (> (chain-assoc-get 'page:page-number props -1) nmbr)
       (interpret-markup layout props arg)
       empty-stencil))

\book {
  \paper {
    print-page-number = ##t
    print-first-page-number = ##t
    first-page-number = -1
    oddHeaderMarkup = \markup \null
    evenHeaderMarkup = \markup \null
    oddFooterMarkup = \markup {
      \fill-line {
        \on-the-fly #(on-page-greater-than 0)
        \fromproperty #'page:page-number-string
      }
    }
    evenFooterMarkup = \oddFooterMarkup
  }
  \markup "A prefatory page (cover page)"
  \pageBreak
  \markup "Another prefatory page (table of contents)"
  \pageBreak
  \markup "First page with a page number"
  \score {
    \new Staff { s1 \break s1 \break s1 }
  }
}



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