leff%smu.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET (Laurence Leff) (10/07/87)
I want to make a macro that will take as an argument a string and produce as indicated below. If string is sufficiently short, then we get 1 adsf adsf asdf asdf adsf adsf adf adf asdf adsfads asdf............... 15 Otherwise we will get 1 adf adsf adsf asdf adsf asdf adsfasdf adsfasdf asdf asdf adsf adsf adfasdf adsfaf adsfadsf adsfasdf adsfasdf asdfadsf adsfasdf .......... 17 Or 2 adsfasdf adsfasdf adsfadsf adsfadsf adsfadsfasdf asdfasdf asdfasdf adsfadsf adsfasdfasdfadsfasdf asdfasdfasd fadsfadsf asdfasdf asdfads adsfadsf adsfadsfasdfadsf adsfasdfadsf asdf dsaf .................... 19 Basically, I am writing a table of contents and list of figures generation system for thesis. It works great when the chapter title or figure caption is short enough so the entry for same fits on one line. I would like to generalize as above. P. S. Actually, the line is being diverted into a macro, the page number and figure number of chapter number is computed and put in and then the macro is printed at the end of the thesis automatically. I don't think that makes any difference.