README for lastpage package, 2010/09/24, v1.2f TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= 1 Introduction 2 Download 3 Installation 4 Additional Packages 5 New Features 6 Package Compatibility 7 Authors/Maintainers 8 Bug Reports 9 Known Problems 1 INTRODUCTION ============== This package puts the label LastPage (\AtEndDocument) into the .aux file, allowing the user to refer to the last page of a document. This might be particularly useful in places like headers or footers. - When more than one page numbering scheme is used, or the fnsymbol page numbering scheme is used, or another package has output after this package, or the number of pages instead of the last page's name is needed, or the page numbers exeed a certain range, there might be problems, which can be solved by using the pagesLTS package instead. 2 DOWNLOAD ========== `lastpage' is available on CTAN: CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/lastpage/ Also a ZIP file is provided that contains the files, already sorted in a TDS tree (should become available on CTAN soon): CTAN:install/macros/latex/contrib/lastpage.tds.zip `CTAN:' means one of the `Comprehensive TeX Archive Network' nodes or one of its mirrors. This is explained in http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=archives The CTAN stuff will be mirrored automatically from the ftp server, so ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/pagesLTS/ corresponds to CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/pagesLTS/ 3 INSTALLATION ============== First, please make sure that there is no old version of lastpage at some obsolete place in your system. Installation with ZIP file in TDS format ---------------------------------------- The ZIP file `lastpage.tds.zip' contains the files sorted in a TDS tree. Thus you can directly unpack the ZIP file inside a TDS tree. (See CTAN:tds.zip for an explanation of TDS.) Example: cd /...somewhere.../texmf unzip /...downloadpath.../lastpage.tds.zip Do not forget to refresh the file name database of this TDS tree. Example: texhash /...somewhere.../texmf Manual installation ------------------- a) Download the lastpage files from CTAN or the TUG server. If necessary, unpack them. b) If directory `beta' exists, replace the files by the counterparts in this directory, if you want to use the latest versions. c) Generate the package and driver files: tex lastpage.ins d) Install the files `*.sty', and `*.cfg' in your TDS tree: cp *.sty *.cfg TDS:tex/latex/muench/lastpage/ Replace `TDS:' by the prefix of your TDS tree (texmf directory). e) Copy the documentation files to "TDS:doc/latex/lastpage/": README, lastpage.pdf, lastpage-example.tex, lastpage-example.pdf. f) Update the databases if necessary, e.g. for teTeX: mktexlsr .../texmf 4 ADDITIONAL PACKAGES ===================== The lastpage package does not depend on other packages, but the lastpage.dtx does (for unpacking and constructing the documentation), see "7.1 Downloads" in the manual, ftp://ftp.ctan.org/ tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lastpage/lastpage.pdf 5 PACKAGE COMPATIBILITY ======================= lastpage is not compatible with the very old version 2.0 (and earlier) of the endfloat package. Newer versions of endfloat exists (at the time of writing this documentation: v2.4i as of 1995/10/11), which are available at CTAN. 6 AUTHOR/MAINTAINER ===================== * Hans-Martin Münch 7 BUG REPORTS ============== A bug report should contain: * Comprehensive problem description. This includes error or warning messages. * \errorcontextlines=\maxdimen can be added in the TeX code to get more informations in TeX error messages. * Minimal test file that shows the problem, but does not contain any unnecessary packages and code. * Used drivers/programs. * Version information about used packages and programs. * If you are using LaTeX, then add "\listfiles". Then a list of version informations is printed at the end of the LaTeX run. * Please no other files than the minimal test file. The other files .log, .dvi, .ps, .pdf are seldom necessary, so send them only on request. * Please .zip or .tar.gz your file(s) before sending them! Bug address ----------- Bug reports can be send to the maintainer: Hans-Martin Münch 8 KNOWN PROBLEMS ================= * Really a lot, see chapter 3 of the documentation!