[pstricks] Use of variable parameters in PSTRICKS

[Rolf Niepraschk]

Denis Girou wrote:
> 
> 
>   If I have not completely misunderstood what you try to do (which can be the
> case!), you can look at this quick and dirty (LaTeX) example. You can compute
> the hight of your sidebar in the same way than here I compute the position of
> the page number.
> 
>   You can perhaps also found some ideas in the `fancyhdr' manual in
> paragraph 20.
> 
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> 
> % Warnings :
> %  - this file must be compiled twice
> %  - the coordinates of the \fancyput macro are set for the A4 format
> 
> \usepackage{pstcol}
> \usepackage{fancybox}
> 
> \makeatletter
> 
> \newcount\TotalPages
> \TotalPages=\z@
...

For things like this the LaTeX packages `lastpage' (reference to the
last page) and `count1to' (reference to the total pages) are more
convenient...

...Rolf

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