Re: Custom footers

[james]

On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:24 PM, Jérôme Plût wrote:

> I don't understand how to define custom footers. Is there a hook in
> odd/evenpagefooter where I can plug a Scheme function, or are they
> limited to the very poor language of \fromproperty and \on-the-fly?
> 
> What I want to do in my case: I have a big PDF file containing all
> parts for a big piece. I want the page footer to contain something
> like
> 
> Title - page 33 - Tenor Trombone (1/3)
> 
> OK, so counting the number of pages of an individual part might be bit
> optimistic, but hey, TeX can do it, so why not. But I hope to at least
> be able to add the local page number.

This is actually all completely doable. Look in the Notation Reference for 
custom headers.