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#42 printing from-to takes physical pages (iunexpectedly)
Its problematic to printa range of pages from a
document whose phyiscal page numbers does not match
logical ones (eg LaTeX-Pages): As the page numbers
shown in the sidebar do not match the physical page
numbers, the right numbers for the first and the last
page are hard to guess.
If you aren't aware of this issue then you first
printout goes wrong for sure. Mayby give a hint in the
print dialog?
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> As the page numbers
> shown in the sidebar do not match the physical page
> numbers, the right numbers for the first and the last
> page are hard to guess.
OK. If you have selected a page in the pagelist before
opening the window, this page number will be used as default
value for `from' and `to'. It doesn't work when
closing/opening again since the old values will be used (so
that user-entered values are not overwritten). Note that if
you're unsure which pages to print, you can always mark them
in the page list by dragging Mouse-2 over them.
(Side note: it's neccessary for the print dialog to behave
this way, otherwise there would be an ambiguity for e.g. the
pages iv and 4. It's a bug in dvips' -pp option that it
can't be used with physical pages, which is why we couldn't
use that option in the first place ...).
Do you think that replacing `From ... to ... of x' by `From
... to ... of x physical pages' would be enough? Note that
the difference between x and the number of the last page
shown in the page list wasn't ;-)
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> Do you think that replacing `From ... to ... of x' by `From
> ... to ... of x physical pages' would be enough?
Implemented in 22.77.3-RC12.
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Already closed - I was too slow.
Stefan, your change is an improvement. But still it is hard
to guess phisical pages from logical ones. How about a
window stating
The range ... to ... of physical pages is the range ... to
... of logical pages. OK? Cancel?
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I don't like this suggestion since
- one shouldn't have popups that may confuse the user and/or
need thinking for more than, say, 1 second (such popups are
just annoying), and
- the concept `range of logical pages' is inherently messy.
E.g. if you have frontmatter i to iv, and mainmatter from 1
to 4, then you'll get things like:
`Physical pages from 3 to 6 are logical pages from 3 to 2'.
(we can't access the roman numeral representation.) I would
find such a message rather confusing. Moreover, slides often
all have number `1' by default, and you can have as many
logical ranges as you want (standard LaTeX has 2 sections,
but files created by makeinfo often have 3 (with negative
numbers at the end; e.g. check `texdoc dvips').
So you'll also get stuff like:
`Physical pages from 3 to 8 are logical pages from 1 to 1'.
`Physical pages from 3 to 8 are logical pages from 1 to -1'.
I'd rather change the dialog so that as long as you don't
edit the text field, the physical number of the current page
is automatically copied into it.
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OK, I understand.
But there should be an easy way to connect the logical and
the physical page number - maybe give the pysical page
number (on request?) along with the logical one in the page
list (in brackets?).
Just wild ideas.
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Hmm. Maybe the cleanest solution would be to have the `Use
TeX pages' toggle everything, not only `goto-page()', so
that the page list would show the physical pages if the
option was switched off (and printing would accept TeX pages
if they were enabled, no matter how ambiguous).
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Pagelist now shows physical pages unless `Use TeX pages' is
selcted (22.77.3).