Is there a way of changing or updating a "field"? In my case, I want SMATH page number (PageNum) to start on page 3 as I have a document cover sheet for pages 1 and 2.
I may have missed this in the other topics, but I could not find a solution.
It's a follow up to https://en.smath.com/for...7228_Page-numbering.aspx

BTW, I've never understood how that "code snippet" (link) is started

Edited by user 18 December 2019 20:23:12(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Jean,
Nothing to do with legal value. Cover sheets are pages 1 and 2 and the calculations start on page 3. I need SMath to allow me to start the page footer field as page 3.

&[PAGENUM+2] / &[COUNT]
so ... the 4 pages printed document footer runs over 2,3,4 5

Attach a typical document or take some from the Forum.

The way you want is hiding page 1, 2
If they have nothing to do with the calculations, than zap these two pages
or have them as separate introduction "Read first" document.
It as more than legal value as it won't even reach Tribunal, why?
Because Jean doing QA will recycle the document starting @ page 3
If you have removed 2 pages, the document is not tracable.
What are they sheets 1, 2 ? How can I know ?
A birthday romance ? Source formulation ... per say: Matlab, Mathcad ...
Assume the cover sheets are a Mathcad snippet image,
it may very well affect the Smath coded calculations.
On the other hand, lot many source formulation are in book style
that have to be converted executable math style.
Typical from Papers, especially modern Papers with 100's references.
In short: you are asking Smath have a feature to hide information.
Who is going to vote for that ? Pooling open ...

Greetings,

There is a simple solution; In your text field, simply type ｢page \[PAGENUM[2]]\ of \[COUNT[2]]\｣ to get --> ｢page 3 of 3｣.

That is: ｢\[PAGENUM[n]]\｣ where ｢n｣ = The page number of the page BEFORE your 'first' Smath Page.

[ NOTES: ]
• From Trial and error, I discovered that:

Negative numbers are not supported.

Decimals are not supported

Padding is supported:

1. Padding with zeros (i.e. 00002) will report at least 5 Digits starting at '3'
2. Padding with letters (i.e. 0xxx2) will report at least 5 Digits, but starting at '1'

For you math nerds: Looks like its limit is the number 2,147,483,647 (the eighth Mersenne prime) at which point it rolls over from -2147483648 --> 1 (for a 1/1 pages)

1. ｢\[COUNT[2147483646]]\｣ --> ｢2147483647｣
2. ｢\[COUNT[2147483647]]\｣ --> ｢-2147483648｣
3. ｢\[COUNT[2147483648]]\｣ --> ｢0000000001｣
4. NOTE: if you start at a high number and it rolls over to [neg], it will not revert back to zero, but rather just add +1 to the negative number (i.e., ｢+2147483647｣ --> ｢-2147483648｣ --> ｢-2147483647｣ --> ...

Spaces and Special Characters are not supported (e.g., π, Δ )

Does NOT support other numeric values! At a glance, it looks like octal/binary/Scientific_Notation is support, but it just pads the number to length and starts at '1'


I Hope this helps!
-Kenny Lemens, P.E.



NOTE: I use '｢' and '｣' as quotations, those characters are not required to get the field/code to process.
====================================================================
Below is some raw input/output for you to understand the limitations of this PAGENUM/COUNT Field:
====================================================================

=== DOES NOT REQUIRE A PARAMETER === ex: Total=1page
｢page \[PAGENUM[]]\ of \[COUNT[]]\｣
--> ｢page 1 of 10｣

=== SUPPORTS NUMERIC PARAMETERS === ex: Total=1page
｢page \[PAGENUM[0]]\ of \[COUNT[0]]\｣
--> ｢page 1 of 1｣

｢page \[PAGENUM[2]]\ of \[COUNT[0]]\｣
--> ｢page 3 of 1｣

｢page \[PAGENUM[2]]\ of \[COUNT[6]]\｣
--> ｢page 3 of 7｣

=== DOES NOT SUPPORT NEGATIVE NUMBERS === ex: Total=1page
｢page \[PAGENUM[-1]]\ of \[COUNT[0]]\｣
--> ｢page \[PAGENUM[-1]]\ of 1｣

=== SUPPORTS PREFIX PADDIN === ex: Total=10pages
｢page \[PAGENUM[00]]\ of \[COUNT[000]]\｣
--> ｢page 01 of 010｣
--> ...
--> ｢page 09 of 010｣
--> ｢page 10 of 010｣

=== SUPPORTS PREFIX PADDING === ex: Total=1page
｢page \[PAGENUM[0000006]]\ of \[COUNT[xxxxxx6]]\｣
--> ｢page 0000007 of 0000001｣
--> NOTE: Letters can be used to 'pad', but will default to Page1 = '1' Use '0' to pad a number with a custom numeric start.

=== OTHER NUMERIC VALUES (will process, but just pads the number '1' to the length of string) === ex: Total=1page
｢page \[PAGENUM[0b11111111]]\ of \[COUNT[0o377]]\｣ (Test binary form of 255; octal form of 255)
--> ｢page 0000000001 of 00001｣
｢page \[PAGENUM[1e10]]\ of \[COUNT[i]]\｣ (Test Scientific notation)
--> ｢page 0001 of 1｣
｢page \[PAGENUM[e]]\ of \[COUNT[π]]\｣ (Test Special Numbers)
--> ｢page 1 of \[COUNT[π]]\｣

=== LIMITATIONS ======
｢\[COUNT[2147483646]]\｣ --> ｢2147483647｣
｢\[COUNT[2147483647]]\｣ --> ｢-2147483648｣
｢\[COUNT[2147483648]]\｣ --> ｢0000000001｣