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From: Douglas.Miller@viccol.edu.au (Douglas Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Total page number
Message-ID: <6570.27a6cf01@csv.viccol.edu.au>
Date: 30 Jan 91 18:49:52 GMT
References: <3883@rwthinf.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Services, Victoria College, Melbourne
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In article <3883@rwthinf.UUCP>, norbert@rwthinf.UUCP (Norbert Kiesel) writes:
> Hello,
> I need page numbers formatted like ``1 of 7'', ``2 of 7'' etc.
> 
> Is there any better way to get this than adding a
> \label{end}
> just before \end{document} and use a
> \pageref{end}
> while constructing the footer?
> 
> I'm searching for a way to create a total.sty which generates this
> automatically i.e. something like a hook at \end{document} to write
> the \newlabel{end}{1}{7} to the .aux file.

\let\old@enddocument=\enddocument
\def\enddocument{\label{end}\old@enddocument}