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From: miw@uqcspe.OZ (Mark Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DSR RUNOFF bug?
Message-ID: <1654@uqcspe.OZ>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 23:32:34 EST
Article-I.D.: uqcspe.1654
Posted: Wed Nov  4 23:32:34 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 01:49:24 EST
References: <8710262017.AA09044@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: miw@uqcspe.oz (Mark Williams)
Organization: Prentice Computer Centre, University of Queensland
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Summary: HEADERS take space, too

In article <8710262017.AA09044@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> J_CERNY@UNHH.BITNET writes:
>RUNOFF generates a reasonably nice looking toc and index, BUT most
>of the page numbers are wrong.  Over the length of a 50-page
>document the numbers gradually (but not in any noticible pattern) increase
>so that they are off by 4 (too many).
....
> By way of more detail, I generate the lines
>to enter in the toc by .header commands, treating them as an .if/.endif
....
>(4) a final pass in which the conditional
>settings ignore the previous .header commands, 

Well, what is happening is that the table of contents is generated on the 
assumption that the headers are to be allowed space, but the actual document
is generated without the headers, and hence no space allowed for them. If
you have a lot of .header commands, this could easily add up to 4 pages or so.

Mark Williams
ARPA: ccwilliams%wombat.decnet.oz@uunet.uu.net


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