hartley@uvm-cs.UUCP (Steve) (09/04/85)
> On pages 15-16 of the 4.2 BSD tutorial "Using nroff and -me" is described >the method of using the transparency characters "\!" to defer the processing >of an index entry until the figure is output so that the page number is correct. >I would like to put the stuff before "Text of figure" in one macro and the >stuff after in another, but I cannot get the transparency part to work. Does >anybody know how to get this to work? Thanks. Well I have a little egg on my face. I was putting the transparent index stuff after the ".)z" in my macro rather than before. After fixing that I was still having trouble with the index entries lining up when it was printed. Adding the ".ti 0.0i" fixed that, I think. .(z .(c Text of figure .)c .ce Figure 5. \!.(x f \!.ti 0.0i \!Figure 5 \!.)x .)z -- "If that's true, then I'm the Pope!" Stephen J. Hartley USENET: {decvax,ihnp4}!dartvax!uvm-gen!uvm-cs!hartley University of Vermont CSNET: hartley%uvm@csnet-relay (802) 656-3330, 862-5323