%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
%%
%% Example 5-3-1 on page I-386 in "\LaTeX {} page numbers".
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{95.40097pt}

  \setlength\textheight{58pt}  % 4 \baselineskip + \topskip
  \addtolength\footskip{-12pt} % shortened for the book

  \usepackage{microtype}  % for better line-breaking
  \tolerance=4000

  \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}