[OS X TeX] LaTeX brain puzzle
Geoff Vallis
gkv at Princeton.EDU
Wed Sep 14 08:28:39 EDT 2005
Thanks to those who responded so quickly. It looks like the varioref
package is just what I need.
Evidently, there are more packages in Heaven and Earth than are
dreamt of in my philosophy.
Geoff
On Sep 14, 2005, at 8:08 AM, Morten Høgholm wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:52:21 +0200, Geoff Vallis
> <gkv at Princeton.EDU> wrote:
>
>
>> I need to reference a table by page number. If the table has a
>> label in it called mylabel then I can write: 'See the table on
>> page \pageref{mylabel}.'
>> But if the table is on the same page, or the next page, as the
>> referencing sentence this looks bit silly. In that case I would
>> like to say, for example, 'see the table at the top of this page.'
>> Thus, I would like a macro, let's say called \cleverref{}, that I
>> use instead of \pageref{} that does the following:
>> 1. If the label is on the same page as \cleverref{} itself, it
>> expands
>> to 'at the top of this page'.
>> 2. If the label is on the next page as \cleverref{} itself, it
>> expands
>> to 'on the next page'.
>> 3. Otherwise it expands to 'on page \pageref{}'.
>>
>
> That's the varioref package from the tools bundle. Note that your
> first requirement isn't that easy to implement; the varioref
> documentation has something on that topic.
> --
> Morten
>
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