[NTG-context] Re: conversion from realpage to pagenumber

[mf <massifr@fastwebnet.it>]

Il 12/01/24 10:39, Henning Hraban Ramm ha scritto:
> Am 12.01.24 um 10:18 schrieb mf:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> how do I convert the realpage number to a page number?
>>
>> Suppose you have a document with a frontmatter of 20 pages in roman 
>> numerals, followed by the main text starting from page 1 in arabic 
>> numerals.
>>
>> So the twelfth page is 'XII', while the twenty-second is '2'.
>>
>> How do I get 'XII' from 12 and '2' from 22?
> 
> try \realpagenumber
> 

The right one would be \userpagenumber, but it works only with the 
current page.

The code for registers does that translation -- from an arbitrary 
realpage of your document to the corresponding user page number, with 
the right formatting -- but I could not find the code that does that in 
strc-reg.* source files.

Massi
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