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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

145.0. "<REFERENCE>(name\FULL) bug?" by COOKIE::JOHNSTON () Mon Mar 23 1987 23:55

The tag <REFERENCE>(symbol_name_fig\FULL) did not produce the expected

"Figure 1-1 some-caption" text, as documented.


I used <REFERENCE> in the context of <SLIDE>.  There was a 
<FIGURE>(symbol_name_fig) to reference.

\VALUE and \TEXT worked as documented.

I did not see this listed as a bug in the release notes.

I haven't tried it with any other doctypes than OVERHEADS.


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145.1Doesn't work???VAXUUM::KOHLBRENNERTue Mar 24 1987 16:129
    did \VALUE and \TEXT work in a <reference> to the SAME symbol?
    
    <figure>(symbol_name_fig) doesn't define a symbol name, it
    just supplies a caption...
    
    What do you mean by "doesn't work?"  Does it supply a message,
    or disappear, or just give you what \VALUE would have given you?
    
    Need more info...
145.2Cockpit errorCOOKIE::JOHNSTONTue Mar 24 1987 17:0822
Oh, geez.  I am so embarrassed.  I *was* referring to the same symbol 
name as \VALUE and \TEXT, but I didn't have \FULL.  I was working on 
some slides, and had coded the tag description correctly but not the 
"real" thing:


<tag>(REFERENCE)(santa_claus_fig\FULL), shows how Santa Claus might be 
illustrated in children's books in the year 2000.
<P>
<P>
<REFERENCE>(santa_claus_fig) shows how Santa Claus might be illustrated
in children's books in the year 2000. 

The tag does work.  A thousand apologies.

Yet another lesson in why you shouldn't enter notes at 10 p.m. when you 
are bleary-eyed.

The moderator can delete this sequence of notes if he likes, or he can 
leave them in as a reminder to check, double-check, and triple check for 
cockpit errors.