On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 15:03, Robert Blackstone wrote:

Thank you, Hans, for your quick reply. Unfortunately it does not help me. The result is basically the same as when I write "on \at{page}[ref]", except that, instead of "on page 20", I get "at page 20", (with the float sitting on page 20). Frankly, I'm rather surprised that this wish of mine seems not to have come up before.

Indeed, something clean and automatic should be easy - after all the color of the reference is different (contrastcolor) when it is to be found on the same page or on a different page. \at{page}[ref] could be smart enough... What should the behavior be? "on \at{page}[ref]" could return "on ", but this would not be right. "\at{on page}[ref]" could return "", but otherwise "on page" would be a (colored) active link. I might try "\in{figure}[ref] \at{(page }{)}[ref]" and hope/expect "(page xx)" to be replaced by "" when referring to the current page. Maybe Wolfgang is right in suggesting writing a custom macro. I haven't looked at the code, though. Alan