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Re: troff macro problem

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From: Brent Byer
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1988 17:05
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In article <13138@pollux.UUCP> lll@pollux.UUCP (Laurence Leff) writes:
>
>I am having trouble making the correct page number appear
>on a list of figures, when the figure caption appears inside
>the ms macros KS-KE pair of KF KE pair.
>
Below is an amended copy of your original .FG macro which does the trick.

 .de FG
 .ie !\(ts\\n(.z\(ts\(ts \{\
 .\" arrive here iff we are storing into the 'keep' diversion
 .\"   that is, the current diversion name is non-null, so we put a copy
 .\"   of ourself into the diversion, such that we get another chance upon
 .\"   the re-read of the diversion (on the final destination page)
 \!.FG "\\$1"
 . \}
 .el \{\
 .\" arrive here iff we are reading back from the 'keep' diversion, and,
 .\" hence, we know what page we will land upon
 'ev 2
 'br
 'da XZ
 .\" 'tm help
 \\$1 page: \\n%
 
 'da
 'ev
 . \}
 ..

	Brent Byer
	Textware Intl.
	PO 14 - Harvard Sq
	Cambridge, MA 02238
	  (617) uni-text     att!ihesa!textware!brent
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From: bb@wjh12.harvard.edu (Brent Byer)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: troff macro problem
Keywords: diversion thesis list of figures
Message-ID: <320@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 88 17:05:27 GMT
References: <13138@pollux.UUCP>
Reply-To: bb@wjh12.UUCP (Brent Byer)
Organization: Textware Intl., Cambridge MA
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