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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Looking for style for numbering pages by chapter
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Date: 29 Dec 89 05:36:05 GMT
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In article <915@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> khc@eecea.eece.ksu.edu
Ken Carpenter) writes:
>I recall seeing some discussion earlier about ways to cause LaTeX to
>number pages within chapters and still preserve this in the table
>of contents.  (Page numbers like, e.g., 3-5, for the 5th in chpt.3.)

At the least, you need to:
 a) tell LaTeX to how to write page numbers:
	\def\thepage{\arabic{chapter}--\arabic{\page}}

 b) make LaTeX reset \c@page on changing chapters:
	% \@addtoreset{page}{chapter}
	% the above does not work, since LaTeX wants the page number
	% to start at 1, not zero.  Instead, we redefine \cl@chapter
	% directly:
	{\let\@elt\relax\xdef\cl@chapter{\cl@chapter\global\c@page=1\relax}}

As a nicety, useful with dviselect, it helps to adjust the counter usage
as well:
	\countdef\c@chapter=0	% use \count0 for chapter ...
	\countdef\c@page=1	% and \count1 for page within chapter
	\c@chapter=0 \c@page=1	% accomodate LaTeX's counting peculiarities

Putting the above commands in a style file will suffice for simple tasks:

	% cat c-p.sty
	\countdef\c@chapter=0 \countdef\c@page=1 \c@chapter=0 \c@page=1
	{\let\@elt\relax\xdef\cl@chapter{\cl@chapter\global\c@page=1\relax}}
	\def\thepage{\arabic{chapter}--\arabic{page}}
	% 

Something fancier is probably needed if the LaTeX program uses
\pagestyle.
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