Re: [Groff] how not to number the cover page? and not to show page number on the front page?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

        From address@hidden Thu Aug 23 10:42:55 2012

        Anton Shterenlikht:

        > I  want the cover page to show no page number, the
        > front page to show no number, and the first normal
        > page  to show page number 2.  All pages after that
        > I want to be numbered consequtively.

        This is complicated and couldn't do it without  fix-
        ing mm.  Maybe it's not working correctly.

        The .PGNH is ignored because mm/ms.cov has:

            address@hidden

        which  undoes its effect.  To make it respect .PGNH,
        I have modified m.tmac's  definition  of  .COVER  to
        store  the  current setting in a number register be-
        fore  the   corresponding   address@hidden   is
        called:

            ...
            .el .ds cov*cov-type \\$1
            .nr prev-top-trap \\n[pg*top-enabled]\"<--Added this line
            address@hidden
            ...

        and  instead of calling address@hidden in ms.cov
        I am restoring the value from the register:

            address@hidden" I deleted this line
            .nr pg*top-enabled \\n[prev-top-trap]\" and inserted this

        To fix the page numbering I called

            address@hidden -1

        in the beginning of your source.  Attached  is  your
        modified example that looks as want.

        My  "fix"  is probably a bad one, and maybe it would
        be better to pass a parameter  to  cover  indicating
        the  presence  of  another cover sheet and disabling
        the header on the next page...

Yes, this works fine, thank you.

However, I'm very reluctant to mess with mm/ms macro
definitions locally. I'll live with the page number
on the front page. The most annoying thing was the
page number on the cover page, which is solved by
address@hidden -1.

Many thanks for your quick and helpful replies.

Anton