I know that I can use \thepage
to get the number of the current page. However I'd like to print out the page-number of the previous page. How can I go about that?
Background:
I don't number the first page in my document and want to start the numbering with 1 on the second page. However I can't use \setcounter{page}{1}
on that site as I want every mechanism (namely the bindingoffset
of the geometry
package) to treat the page-numbering as if the first page does have the number 1. In short I want the pages with a (then) even page number to be treated as odd pages and vice versa.