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From: flowers@memstvx1.memst.edu (Harry Flowers)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Indexing multi-part page numbers
Message-ID: <1991May8.095120.27@memstvx1.memst.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 15:51:20 GMT
References: <2155@seti.inria.fr> <1991May6.111959.418@sc2a.unige.ch>
Organization: Memphis State University
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In article <1991May6.111959.418@sc2a.unige.ch>, plaut@sc2a.unige.ch writes:
> In article <2155@seti.inria.fr>, mark@motown.altair.fr (Mark James) writes:
>> 
>> I'm responsible for a 300-page user manual that's getting more and
>> more stable, as our product does likewise.  So instead of reprinting
>> the whole thing with each new version, I'd like to print only those
>> chapters that have changed.  In order not to screw up the pagination
>> and the index of the whole thing, I'd like to switch from LaTeX's
>> standard sequential page numbers to the format n-m, where n is the
>> chapter number and m is the page number within the chapter. 
> 
> -- 
> 
> I think that the simpliest way to do it is to go through LaTeX with
> the whole document but to PRINT only the pages you are interested
> in.

I modified the book style to form a manual style.  I believe it's now
distributed as part of the standard LaTeX package.  It does the n-m numbering
as well as supporting page ranges to print.  The documentation (changes from
book style) are in the top of the manual.sty file; for page selection you are
referred to the bottom of the same file.  It uses a Knuth hack from TUGboat.