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From: lll@pollux.UUCP (Laurence Leff)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: troff macro problem
Keywords: diversion thesis list of figures
Message-ID: <13138@pollux.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 05:34:11 GMT
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering; S.M.U.; Dallas, TX
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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.

I have made the necessary additions and modifications to the ms
macros to print out stuff for thesis.
ONe of the theings I would like to do would be to output the
table of figures and table of tables.  This is done by the
use of diversinos,  each time a figure caption is generated,
an addition is made containing the figure number, the title
of the figure and lastly the page number on which the figure appears.

Most of the time, this figure caption macro is called inside
a KS, KE or KF KE pair.  Unfortunately, the page number that
appears is the one where the macro was called and not the
one that it appeared on.  
If there wasn't enough space for the KS KE to print on the same
page, then the page number is off by one.

I have reproduced the problem using the KS, KE macros given
in the nroff/troff tutorial.  
The last line should indicate that the figure appeared on page two.

ON the line in FG, after the comment (tm help), I Have tried various
counts of backslashes both before the n and before the t
to no avail.

.de hd
.tl "-%-
..
.wh 0 hd
.de LP
.sp 1
..
.de FG
'ev 2
'br
'da XZ
.\" 'tm help
\\$1 page: \\n%

'da
'ev
..
.de KS
.br
.ev 1
.fi
.di XX
..
.de KE
.br
.di
.ne \\n(.t
.\" .if \\n(dn>=\\n(.t .bp
.nf
.XX
.ev
..
test1
.sp 1i
.KS
.FG "Figure 1"
.sp 10i
Figure 1
.KE
.sp 1i
test 2
.bp
.tl "this is XZ:"
.ev 2
.XZ