How do I show the next page number on the current page? - FM7

Seems like we discussed something like this lately, but I can't find it.

Basically, MPs don't know what page they are until they are used to create body page content, and even then they only know about current page and last page. They can't have Xrefs to things that vary either.

So it can't be done and here's how to do it:

1. Create named color Invisible.
   This color will be in the Invisible column in whatever Color View you use for publication. In whatever CV# you use for edit, it will be Normal.
2. Create Paragraph Format
   Name: TPIB
   Basic: Space: Below: 612 pt (or whatever pushes anything below to a new page)
   Default Font: Color: Invisible
   Pagination: Start: Top of Page
   Numbering: Autonumber Format: [THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK] (so you can see the intent during edit)
3. Create Paragraph Format
   Name: Next_TPIB
   Default Font: Size: 4
   Color: Invisible
   Numbering: Autonumber Format: [Next TPIB Page:\ ]
4. Create a Cross-Reference Format
   Name: Next_TPIB
   Definition: [/(<$chapnum>-<$pagenum>)]
5. Modify System Variable
   Variable: Running H/F 5
   Definition: <$paratext[Next_TPIB]>
6. In MP footers, do your page# field as:
   <$chapnumn>-<$currpagenum>Running H/F 5

On the page before any blank page, insert a para of format Next_TPIB whose paratext is an Xref to the next TPIB para, of format Next_TPIB

On the page after any blank page, insert an empty para of format Next_TPIB, this makes the /(#-#) blank when no TPIB follows.

Use Master Page Mapping of page containing tag TPIB to make the headers & footers invisible.

Am curious what you put on the blank page (in your example, pate 2-2, the one before 2-3 and after 2-1), such as what header and footer info?