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On Thursday 25 January 2007 00:35, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hans and I have been looking at your patch, but unfortunately it can not be incorporated in the distribution as-is. The problem is that some references need to be written inside the output routine, that being the only place were the actual page number is known. Think about references in floats, for example.
The bit of code you have modified is unlikely to change soon, so you could probably keep using your local patches (or better: redefinitions of the macros within cont-loc.tex) without much problems.
I wonder whether it would be beneficial to include all of the patches except the immediate write? That would appear to solve most problems except some cases of \somewhere to a reference on the same page. Most \somewhere's refer to distant references. Fixing the off-by-one and off-by-a-factor-of-two errors would help enormously. Is there a way to make the immediate write conditional on not floating?
Hans proposed that a definitive solution would be to always add position information to the references, but that will take a fair bit of work, so it is on a "todo, but not quite now" list.
Absolutely. --Mike Bird