[Tex/LaTex] Numbering not every line with lineno

line-numbering

How it is possible to number not every line with lineno?

For example only every fifth line.

There are no hints in the manual.

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Page 2 of my copy of the manual mentions the modulo option: "Print line numbers only if they are multiples of five".

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[modulo]{lineno}
\linenumbers

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

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\linenumbers
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The lineno package does a remarkable job of adding numbers to the text, but there are various ways in which it might get it wrong, not through any real deficiency in the package, but just due to the complexities of how pages are built in TeX.

The pagewise numbering scheme requires the package to write the line numbers first to an .aux file, which it then reads back on a second run to generate the per-page numbers.

I was unable to replicate the behaviour in your document, but I suspect that the likely cause is a section break at the very end of the page on which the numbering began to fail. This kind of problem is solved in the same way that a typical bad page break problem is solved.

rewrite the text so that the section appears earlier in the page or moves to the next page
insert a manual \clearpage to force the section onto the next page

This second option should obviously only be done at the last stages of writing the document.

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