Re: [Groff] how not to number the cover page? and not to show page number on the front page?

[Anton Shepelev]

Ralph Corderoy:

> > Yes,  and this is exactly what address@hidden does.
> > The documentation doesn't  say  that  P  is  not
> > read-only.   I  consider address@hidden as a setter
> > of the field P and therefore preferable to  set-
> > ting  P  directly.   If it was not so trivial my
> > mehtod would be less likely to  break  anything.
> > But you are right that your version does not re-
> > quire knowledge of mm's internals.
>
> To my mind as it does more than just set P so it's
> worth poking about under the covers.
>
>   .de address@hidden
>   .
>   .ie \n[.$]>0 .nr P \$1
>   .el .nr P +1
>   .
>   .ds hd*sect-pg \n[H1]-\n[P]
>   .if \n[Sectp]>1 .if '\n[H1]'0' .ds hd*sect-pg "
>   ..

Thanks,  I  missed  the  piece about hd*sect-pg.  My
version is definitely better then.

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