Please provide macros to insert the current page number and total number of pages

Question

If I place a header, or footer in my sequence diagram, and I use newpage to span pages for readability, I don't see a way to place a page number such that it is correct.  If I manually enter the page number in header or footer, only the last one is used for all pages.  Is there a way to enter a page number code in the header or footer such that it is displayed correctly or, barring that, to have a different header and footer per page so I can manually enter the page numbers?

I'd like to have a footer with "Page # of ##" ideally.

Answer 1

Thanks for the suggestion, this is a good idea!
With last beta (beta16) http://beta.plantuml.net/plantuml.jar

You can now have:
@startuml
footer This is %page% of %lastpage%
Alice --> Bob : A1
newpage
Alice --> Bob : A2
newpage
Alice --> Bob : A3
newpage
Alice --> Bob : A4
@enduml

This has not been widely tested, so do not hesitate to post here if you find issues.
Thanks again!

Comments

So far, so good.  I'll let you know if I run into problems.

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I can confirm that it works in v 2020.2

But if I have

!pragma teoz true

then it is broken. :-(

It comes up as

Page %page% of %lastpage% instead of Page 1 of 1

but only if the

!pragma teoz true

is set

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Please create a new question. I think it is not done with the new preprocessor

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This is (partialy) solved in last beta http://beta.plantuml.net/plantuml.jar

teoz does not handle completely the "newpage" directive.

A new question would be indeed better :-)