General ⇒ pages range of a section

[zwierz]

Hi,

I have a document containing several sections and I need to print at the beginning of each section it's pages rage. I know that I can get current page number with \thepage command but how can I know what is a number of the last page of a section when I'm at beginning of the section?

[Frits]

The lastpage package might help you, but that package is mainly made to indicate the number of pages of your entire document.

[zwierz]

Unfortunately lastpage package works only for a last page. Of course information that this can't be done in TeX will be valuable too. At least it will give me some kind of peace of mind

[localghost]

Simply put a \label command at the very beginning and the very end of a section and refer to both with the \pageref command. This should give you the page range of a section.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \section{Section Title}\label{sec:first}
    This Section goes from Page \pageref{sec:first} to Page \pageref{sec:first-end}

    \medskip
    \blindtext[6]\label{sec:first-end}
\end{document}

Note that you at least need two compiler runs to get the references right.


Thorsten

[zwierz]

Thank you, it works perfectly well.