Conference vaxuum::document_ft

623.0. "Pages lost from beginning of document" by CASEE::RAYNER (Doug Rayner) Thu Jul 09 1987 12:02

    I tried to find a previous report of this problem using some
    DIR/TITLE's, but could not find any.  Sorry if this is a repeat.
    
    We recently went from BL7 to BL8.  I have several documents, all
    but one of which exhibit the following problem (the only significant
    difference I can see is that the the one without the problem is
    also the only one with a TOC).  They all are report.twocol style
    and are getting printed on an LN03.
    
    I am loosing the first few pages of the body of the document.  The
    page number of the first page after the TOC is sometimes 1, but
    it is sometimes 2.  The first section on the first page is 2.x or
    some other such section that should be on a later page.  The earlier
    sections are lost.  The page counts that came out on my terminal
    during processing seem to be correct, but do not match the number
    of actual pages printed.  This seems to be reproducable for a given
    input file, but small changes in the input file can make the problem
    go away or change somewhat (different number of lost pages, different
    number on first page, etc.).
    
    Help!!!

    I have more information.  It seems that the problem is eleviated
    if I remove the <contents_file> tag from the document.  If I process
    that file with the /contents swith the contents still gets created
    (and printed) but is not merged into a single .ln03 file with the
    rest of the document.  This might be the point of failure.
    
    I sure would like to get the TOC merged into the .ln03 file since
    that file needs to be copied over the network for distribution --
    having people copy and print multiple files is a drag.