I wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht: > > > > Also, you can use the second argument to > > > .GETST to save the reference into a string and > > > use that in the caption. > > > > Thanks, this works: > > > > .PSPIC rep-cold-mises-mesh.ps 6.0 > > .ds caption "Mises stress in the 0.3 mm notch model > > .as caption " at \*[cold]\" > > .as caption " at \*[ep02]\" > > .as caption " at the notch root. > > .as caption " The fine grain material is at the top,\" > > .as caption " and the coarse grain material is at the\" > > .as caption " bottom. The discontinuity of stress at\" > > .as caption " the boundary is cleary visible.\" > > .FG "\*[caption]" "" 0 fig:cold-mises-mesh > > .SETR fig:cold-mises-mesh > > .DE > > > > .DS CB > > .PSPIC rep-cold-mises-nomesh.ps 6.0 > > .ds caption "Same as Fig.\" > > .as caption " .GETST fig:cold-mises-mesh,\" > > .as caption " but with mesh not shown for clarity.\" > > .FG "\*[caption]" "" 0 fig:cold-mises-nomesh > > .SETR fig:cold-mises-nomesh > > .DE > > But it's not what I meant. A couple of notes: > > a. The calls of .SETR in your example are re- > dundant in both cases because the corre- > sponding references are already set by the > previous call of .FG via its fourth argu- > ment. > > b. Your version works only because .FG, when > called from within a display, uses > .lix@embedded-text instead of > .lix@print-text. The former relies on de- > layed expantion (see escape '\!') which > causes a macro call within a string to be > interpreted. > > I was suggesting to call > > .ds rsql\" to smother an error message on first pass > .GETST fig:cold-mises-mesh ref:cmm > > in the beginning of the ducument and then use the > resulting string \*[ref:cmm] in captions.
By the way, this innocuous error message could be mended by modifying mm's .GETST so that on the first pass it would initialize the string passed in the second argument with a dummy value instead of skip- ping its creation. Werner, would you approve it? -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
