Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:54:43PM +0300, Ron Aaron wrote: > On Sunday 01 August 2010 12:41:35 Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > It is not like they are enemies or even commercial competitors, it is > > all TeX and, if one's need can be achieved by this or that engine, then > > be it. Not everything can b

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Isambert
Selon Ron Aaron : > On Sunday 01 August 2010 12:41:35 Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > It is not like they are enemies or even commercial competitors, it is > > all TeX and, if one's need can be achieved by this or that engine, then > > be it. Not everything can be done with traditional TeX techniques, n

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Ron Aaron
On Sunday 01 August 2010 12:41:35 Khaled Hosny wrote: > It is not like they are enemies or even commercial competitors, it is > all TeX and, if one's need can be achieved by this or that engine, then > be it. Not everything can be done with traditional TeX techniques, not > in a efficient way at l

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 11:04:49AM +0200, Paul Isambert wrote: > Selon Philipp Stephani : > > > > > Am 01.08.2010 um 09:28 schrieb Ron Aaron: > > > > > On Sunday 01 August 2010 10:16:27 Paul Isambert wrote: > > > > > >> Indeed, the \mark won't end up on the main vertical list. In the latest > > >>

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread John Was
nitty-gritty would be packed away in a macro. J. - Original Message - From: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)" To: ; "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" Sent: 01 August 2010 10:13 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working f

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Ron Aaron
On Sunday 01 August 2010 12:13:38 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > you might be > able to gain access to your marks that way : you would use > \box within your \line (to avoid problems with accidentally > changing mode) and access the marks through a vsplit copy > of the box{es} -- what do

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Ron Aaron wrote: Well, when I do an "unvbox" on the vtop which has the marks, it does work (that is, the marks are visible on the page). The problem though is that totally screws up the layout :( Yes, that is to be expected, because of TeX's modes. I wonder whether the solution might lie i

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Isambert
Selon Philipp Stephani : > > Am 01.08.2010 um 09:28 schrieb Ron Aaron: > > > On Sunday 01 August 2010 10:16:27 Paul Isambert wrote: > > > >> Indeed, the \mark won't end up on the main vertical list. In the latest > >> TUGboat issue, Hans Hagen writes about this and proposes a nice > >> solution...

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 01.08.2010 um 09:28 schrieb Ron Aaron: > On Sunday 01 August 2010 10:16:27 Paul Isambert wrote: > >> Indeed, the \mark won't end up on the main vertical list. In the latest >> TUGboat issue, Hans Hagen writes about this and proposes a nice >> solution... but with LuaTeX! > > Hmm. I really n

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Ron Aaron wrote: On Saturday 31 July 2010 23:25:24 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: I would start by looking at your comparison with \null, Ron : if you look at TB, p.~351, you will see that \null is defined as \hbox {}, which is a pretty unlikely value for a null mark. Hi, Phil --

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Ron Aaron
On Sunday 01 August 2010 10:35:56 John Was wrote: > It's just possible that \global \mark would do the trick. Otherwise, > immediate writes and reads look like a good solution to me. Well, when I do an "unvbox" on the vtop which has the marks, it does work (that is, the marks are visible on the

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread John Was
08:16 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ... Selon Ron Aaron : On Sunday 01 August 2010 06:23:19 Ron Aaron wrote: > On Sunday 01 August 2010 00:47:59 John Was wrote: > I wonder if my problem stems from the "mark" being > inside a vbox? If that

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Ron Aaron
On Sunday 01 August 2010 10:16:27 Paul Isambert wrote: > Indeed, the \mark won't end up on the main vertical list. In the latest > TUGboat issue, Hans Hagen writes about this and proposes a nice > solution... but with LuaTeX! Hmm. I really need XeTeX, since it knows how to typeset complex langu

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Isambert
Selon Ron Aaron : > On Sunday 01 August 2010 06:23:19 Ron Aaron wrote: > > On Sunday 01 August 2010 00:47:59 John Was wrote: > > I wonder if my problem stems from the "mark" being > > inside a vbox? If that's the problem, I don't know how I would get around > > it ... > > Argggh! That is exactly

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-07-31 Thread Ron Aaron
On Sunday 01 August 2010 06:23:19 Ron Aaron wrote: > On Sunday 01 August 2010 00:47:59 John Was wrote: > I wonder if my problem stems from the "mark" being > inside a vbox? If that's the problem, I don't know how I would get around > it ... Argggh! That is exactly what my problem is. The "\mark

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-07-31 Thread Ron Aaron
On Saturday 31 July 2010 23:25:24 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > I would start by looking at your comparison with \null, Ron : > if you look at TB, p.~351, you will see that \null is defined > as \hbox {}, which is a pretty unlikely value for a null mark. Hi, Phil -- That turns out to

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-07-31 Thread Ron Aaron
On Sunday 01 August 2010 00:47:59 John Was wrote: > I also wondered about that, and another thing: are you sure that you are > using the \mark commands *after* the note-count has been advanced? Yes, absolutely sure. I wonder if my problem stems from the "mark" being inside a vbox? If that's the

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-07-31 Thread John Was
ay! John - Original Message - From: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)" To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" Sent: 31 July 2010 21:25 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ... I would start by looking at your

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-07-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
I would start by looking at your comparison with \null, Ron : if you look at TB, p.~351, you will see that \null is defined as \hbox {}, which is a pretty unlikely value for a null mark. ** Phil. Ron Aaron wrote: I'm trying to get a range of numbers (of footnotes) for each page. So my