> Meer, Hans van der <mailto:H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
> 17. Januar 2016 um 16:58
> Defining \pagereference[xyz] en calling this some pages later with 
> \atpage[xyz] I get as reference "at a previous page" (perhaps not 
> exactly, the typesetting is done in dutch).
The english text is “on a preceding page”.
> This an unwanted result, that previous page is 7 pages before.
The test is still true before “on *a* preceding page” is not the same as 
“on *the* preceding page”.
> How can I restrict this to either "on this page" or to the exact 
> number of the page in question?
You can print the number with \at[<LABEL>].

Wolfgang