How to get the total page number at startup in luatex?

How to get the total page number at startup in luatex?

[Zhichu Chen]

Hi,

I've met a weird thing, I can't get \totalnumberofpages in the preamble.
But it used to work.

A simple test file is
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
\dorecurse{\totalnumberofpages}{\setvalue{test::\recurselevel}{:\recurselevel:}}
\def\test{\getvalue{test::\pagenumber}}
\starttext
\input knuth
\page[yes]
\input knuth
\page[yes]
This should be \quotation{:\pagenumber:}, but it's \quotation{\test}
\stoptext
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Any suggestions about how to do that? I wanna define each page a macro.
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Best Regards
Chen
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Re: How to get the total page number at startup in luatex?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've met a weird thing, I can't get \totalnumberofpages in the preamble.
> But it used to work.
>
> A simple test file is
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> \dorecurse{\totalnumberofpages}{\setvalue{test::\recurselevel}{:\recurselevel:}}
> \def\test{\getvalue{test::\pagenumber}}
> \starttext
> \input knuth
> \page[yes]
> \input knuth
> \page[yes]
> This should be \quotation{:\pagenumber:}, but it's \quotation{\test}
> \stoptext
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Any suggestions about how to do that? I wanna define each page a macro.

Define your macros *after* \starttext.

Wolfgang
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Re: How to get the total page number at startup in luatex?

[Zhichu Chen]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've met a weird thing, I can't get \totalnumberofpages in the preamble.
>> But it used to work.
>>
>> A simple test file is
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> \dorecurse{\totalnumberofpages}{\setvalue{test::\recurselevel}{:\recurselevel:}}
>> \def\test{\getvalue{test::\pagenumber}}
>> \starttext
>> \input knuth
>> \page[yes]
>> \input knuth
>> \page[yes]
>> This should be \quotation{:\pagenumber:}, but it's \quotation{\test}
>> \stoptext
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>> Any suggestions about how to do that? I wanna define each page a macro.
>
> Define your macros *after* \starttext.
Nice, though it makes some trouble that I should use \appendtoks for a module.

Thanks.
>
> Wolfgang
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> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
>
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> ___________________________________________________________________________________
>



-- 
Best Regards
Chen
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         No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China
             tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com
                                               | www.sinap.ac.cn
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