Logical and physical page numbers
By default, Quantum does not recalculate page numbers to take into account changes made by hitch and squeeze. So, if you have three tables which would normally be printed on pages 1, 2 and 3, and you use hitch=2 to print tables 1 and 2 on the same page, the page number printed on table 3 will still show page 3 even though it is now physical page 2.
You can use the physpag keyword to request that the physical page numbers are printed rather than the logical page numbers. To request this, type:
physpag
on the a statement. Then, the same three tables would be physically numbered as follows: tables 1 and 2 would have Page 1 printed above them, and table 3 would have Page 2 printed above it.
If you do not want tables 1 and 2 to both be numbered Page 1, you could use the relevant hitch or squeeze option to suppress identical table titles, thereby also suppressing identical page numbers.
Note If you have physpag in the default options file, you can override this by specifying nophyspag on the a statement in your program.
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