[Tugindia] Typesetting Letters and Books

[E. Krishnan]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, CV Radhakrishnan wrote:

 > On Wed, August 17, 2005 9:20 pm, Kingshuk said:

> > While writing letters and applications, I am using fancyhdr package and
> > \pagestyle{empty} to remove page numbers.
> > Is there some means to put the page numbers  the following way:
> >
> > page 1 of 5
> > page 2 of 5
> > ..
> > ..
> > page 5 of 5
> 
> lastpage.sty will help you to get the above. The package says in its
> preamble:
> 
> %% Allow for things like |page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}| to
> %% get `page 5 of 23'

If you use both the packages "lastpage" and "fancyhdr", then you can 
include a command like

  \cfoot{\thepage of \pageref{LastPage}}

to get what you want.

-- 
Krishnan