Re: problem to code page-numbers

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to put out a \book, affecting the page-numbers in a certain way.
> Ofcourse this should happen under certain conditions.
>
> Look at the minimal example below.
> All I try to affect is the `counter', if the page is the last of the bookpart.
> I had expected that the counter would get up to 3 (starting at 1 and
> two bookparts having a last page)
> Instead it goes up to 9.
>
> No idea why it's called nine times.

It can be called any number of times.  LilyPond does not guarantee you
that it gets the pages laid out perfect at first try.

So you better not depend on any particular order or number of header
field calls.

What is it that you are trying to do?

-- 
David Kastrup