[texhax] Hyperref pointer misses the correct page

[Uwe Lueck]

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Sorry for the HTML again, read http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2012-July/ for .txt.

Sorry, Alan, this kind of question can only trigger the 
newbie ritual of asking for a minimal example,

    http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl
    
where I opt for "hacking down" -- take away as much as possible 
keeping the effect, and then perhaps use lorem ipsum 
to replace the actual text.

It may suffice for us to see the .aux file. 

I would not be surprised if it had something to do with my 
\ref and \pageref tricks; so we must see whether the 
phenomenon stays when you remove my macros or even 
any line number stuff.

What you write reminds me of experiences when I tried to 
get lineno+hyperref functionality via hyperref's usual 
treatment of counters. The hyperref documentations says 
something like whenever the user introduces a new kind of 
"objects" in addition to `section' etc. -- say, `extra', 
besides \theextra (that gets a default by the basic 
`\newcounter{extra}'), hyperref needs some \theHextra 
for generating the hyperlink. I tried this and, for some 
time, I got a broken link to a `section' that indeed started 
on a different page than where I wanted to link to. 
The reason was that hyperref (with counters) internally uses 
a "\@currentlabelname" that expanded to `section' because 
I had failed to change this for line numbers.

hyperref indeed contains large sections to deal with 
certain "objects" including footnotes, equations, and 
subfigures that need a more refined treatment than the 
other usual LaTeX "objects" like sections etc.

So I guess it is a problem with the setup of your new 
kind of things and its counter, and it may suffice to 
tell us about that (first).

Cheers, 

    Uwe.