Re: Cross-references to wrong pages

[Yves Forkl]

> > Lout ends up with the wrong page number for many of my
> > cross-references, printing the number of the preceding page.
>
> Your code looks OK to me.  Probably you just need to run
> Lout once or twice more.

Hi,

currently I'm using a loop on the shell to resolve all cross-references:

while grep -q unresolved lout.log; \
do \
   lout -e lout.log mydoc.lt > mydoc.ps; \
done

If this is not sufficient to get the page numbers right: How to 
determine the number of runs required? Has experience led to an 
estimated guess here? BTW, lout.log in the final state doesn't mention 
any problems with cross references, just 15 objects (all of them related 
to footnotes) that have been moved.

What is even more confusing is that page number determination seems to 
be non-deterministic: in two consecutive ("full", i.e. looped) runs, 
Lout created two PS versions of the same document where it put a 
specific heading both times in the same place (at the critical top of 
the main flow area), but one time the page number is right, another time 
I get the number of the preceding page.

And, at least with the loop technique above, the worst I have 
encountered is a heading which has 1 1/2 paragraphs (making up 7 
printing lines plus blank lines) above it on the page, and still Lout 
pretends this object to be found on the preceding page! (I fear I might 
have generated some code that troubled Lout somehow.)

Surprisingly, however, in the PS file that I created now all of the 
cross references seem to show the right page numbers. I hope they will 
stay... ;-)

 Yves