Re: Strange problem with @Label of @References inside @Tbl/@Table environment

Hi Jeff and all!

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 01:51:42PM +0100, Volker Renneberg wrote:
>   
>> Hi there!
>>
>> Lout (3.36) shows some strange behaviour when inserting a reference into 
>> a table. The necessary files are attached as well as the converted .PS 
>> output of lout. The following change has been made to "book":
>>            @RefCiteLabels    { @Label        }
>>
>> There are two problems.
>> 1) A citation made inside a @Table-environment does not make lout add 
>> the references-appendix. If you comment out the @Table-symbol and its 
>> parameters, @Tbl by itself works totally fine.
>>     
>
> Not sure about this.  Two possibilities are (1) the table is being
> moved to after the reference list and this is causing the connection
> between the citation and the reference list to not be made.  The
> solution is to make the document larger, with the table less close
> to the end.  (2) You need to run Lout a couple more times before
> looking to see whether the reference list is coming out.
>   
A @NP after the @Table-block helped to let everything appear.
>> 2) Take a look at the references1.ld. There, the @Label content contains 
>> "ref1 et al. 2098". However, the rendered table just shows "ref1  al. 
>> 2098" without the word "et". Is "et" being used and replaced somewhere 
>> inside the @Tbl-environment?!
>>     
>
> I haven't checked in detail but this has all the marks of the bug
> documented in a footnote in Section 2.8 of the User's Guide.  Try
> enclosing "et" in double quotes.
>   
Looks like this helps. Another, more generic solution is to extend the 
@Reference->@Label parameter in include/dsf by:
...
    named @Label
        named et {"et"} {}
...

This way one does not have to change all the @Labels...

Cheers
Volker

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