tingerrr/anti-matter

A typst package for managing front and back matter page numbering of your documents.

rust & typst enthusiast

anti-matter's Issues

Deprecate?

I've used my own package successfully in a few reports for university, while using my unfinished template.

After starting work on my master's thesis and by extension the university template to turn it into a proper template package, I noticed that I once again got incorrect results. Namely, off-by-one errors, which I couldn't attribute to the metadata being shoved to the next page.

It was also trivial to create logical page numbering with a well-structured template, without anti-matter. So I'm wondering if this package carries its own weight, especially since Typst cannot use logical numbering for PDF-export if this package is used.

// unnumbered title page if needed
// ...

// front-matter
#set page(numbering: "I")
#counter(page).update(1)
// ...

// page counter anchor
#metadata(()) <front-matter>

// main document body
#set page(numbering: "1")
#counter(page).update(1)
// ...

// back-matter
#set page(numbering: "I")
// must take page breaks into account, may need to be offset by +1 or -1
#context counter(page).update(counter(page).at(<front-matter>).first())
// ...

A document like this will provide correct logical page numbering for PDF-export, as well as simple front- and back-matter numbering with almost no setup.

The only thing this package can do that this approach cannot, is getting the correct total number at each point to allow for I / V or 1 / 15 patterns. But this seems rare in practice.

Error in version 0.1.0 (typst/packages)

anti-matter/src/lib.typ

Line 18 in ebdf1a8

util.assert-pattern(numbering)

Above line is from this repo (tingerrr/anti-mater)
Below line is from typst/packages

https://github.com/typst/packages/blob/3e450dcd3dcf23e74b10b3e557acb223928ce308/packages/preview/anti-matter/0.1.0/src/lib.typ#L18

Maybe a small update that doesn't increment semver to fix?

(Unused code path) Error: unknown variable: num

anti-matter/src/lib.typ

Line 52 in f45315e

(current: at, last: last, at-none: num == none)

I think the let num in the next scope should be in the parent scope instead?

How to move the numbering to the top?