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In article <2SEP199204243745@reg.triumf.ca>, asnd@reg.triumf.ca
(Donald Arseneau) writes:
|> In article <2SEP199202472416@reg.triumf.ca>, I wrote:
|> >Use \pageref and it should work on the second pass through LaTeX.
|> 
|> But \pageref does not produce a pure number as it has definitions
|> of \@tempa and such in it.  So it is better to steal parts of the 
|> \pageref definition.
|> 
|> I came up with
|> 
|> %  Assign unique label for float:
|> \edef\@tempa{\noexpand\label{F*\the\c@figure;T*\the\c@table}}\@tempa
|> %  get page number of this float:  {}{number} or \relax
|> \edef\@tempa{\csname r@F*\the\c@figure;T*\the\c@table\endcsname}%
|> \edef\thispage{\expandafter\@cdr\@tempa\@nil\space}%
|> \ifx\thispage\space\def\thispage{0 }\fi %  use 0 if unknown
|> 
|> Then the test \ifnum\thispage=xxx will work, but always giving 
|> \thispage=0 on the first pass through the document.

Even this assumes that \thepage has not been changed from its default
of \arabic{page}. If you redefine it as, say, \roman{page} then the
\pageref values will change correspondingly, and you will end up trying
to do things like "\ifnum iv=4". To get round this you would have to 
dissect \label as well as \pageref.

Chris Thompson
Cambridge University Computing Service
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