%% %% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004) %% %% Example 4-3-1 on page 215. %% %% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, %% Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley %% %% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions %% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 %% of this license or (at your option) any later version. %% %% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details. %% \documentclass{ttctexa} \pagestyle{empty} \setcounter{page}{6} \setlength\textwidth{95.40097pt} \setlength\textheight{5\baselineskip} \addtolength\footskip{-12pt} % shortened for the book \sloppy \pagestyle{origplain} % plain is disabled by the class \StartShownPreambleCommands \StopShownPreambleCommands \begin{document} We are now on page~\label{p1}\pageref{p1}. This type of coding always gives correct results while ``page \thepage{}'', though okay here, will be wrong at a later point in the paragraph, such as here: ``page \thepage'', because \LaTeX{} decided to break the paragraph over two pages. \end{document}