On Tue, Aug 27, 2013, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > Otherwise, how would you do it? Well, the section macro could > perhaps query register "nl" (vertical position of last printed > text base-line), but that may be a bit chancy (depending on, > for example, whether you output or not a page header on that > page). Or the new-page macro could set a flag to indicate > that a new page has just been started, and that flag could be > queried by the section macros. However, you would then also > need a mechanism to automatically reset the flag once text > has been output. This could be achieved by setting a trap > at the top which is sprung once text is actually printed. > (And it appears mom is trying to do exactly that.)
Indeed, this is what mom's @TOP register is for, with a trap to reset the flag. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
