The $If -articlelist command will generate a list of articles, and the -Pperpage (Per Page Parameter) parameter is used to specify the number of articles that will be displayed on each page. The -Pperpage parameter should be used with the -Ppagenum parameter to determine which articles are displayed.
Example:
$if -articlelist(topic) -Ptopic'topicID' -Ppagenum'1' -Pperpage'100' -Psort'DATE_REVERSE'$
The above example would display the first 100 articles, sorted in reverse date order.