🚀 go-pugleaf

jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen) writes:

> Over the weekend I've finally learned TeX for real.  It's actually a breeze
> (for programmers, anyway) with good material: I recommend these two books: A
> Beginner's Book of TeX by Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy (ISBN
> 0-387-97562-4), and The Advanced TeXbook by David Salomon (ISBN
> 0-387-94556-3).  These are vastly better than The TeXbook 

They must be, to learn TeX in a weekend!  Congratulations!

> % Write a label to the cross-reference file
> \def\label#1#2{\immediate\write\aux
> {\noexpand\def\expandafter\noexpand\csname#2\endcsname{{#1}{\folio}}}}

This is incorrect -- You need to use plain \write to get the
page-reference right.  Of course you want to evaluate the
ordinary reference immediately.  Something like:

 \def\label#1#2{\begingroup
   \let\folio\relax
   \edef\labeL{\def\expandafter\string\csname#2\endcsname{{#1}{\folio}}}
   \write\aux{\labeL}
 \endgroup
 }

> \def\figure#1#2{\advance\fignum by 1 \label{\the\fignum}{#1}{Figure \the\fignum \ #2}
> \edef\save{\string\fg\the\fignum:#2\string\page\noexpand\folio%
>  \string\\}
> \write\lof\expandafter{\save}}

The same problem here with page numbers.

Also you should use \global\advance\fignum

They look amazingly good for someone who just learned.

Donald Arseneau                         asnd@triumf.ca