If you have got to a point where everything works except that the right-hand
side has slipped to a measurable extent (viz. the height plus depth of the
left-hand side), then you could measure the left-hand side as an initial
operation, store that measurement, and start the right-hand side with
\vskip -\themeasuredamount before setting the Hebrew.
Of course these things tend to get ever more complex (and then someone comes
along with a neat solution), but TeX isn't particularly slowed up (usually)
by making rather difficult calculations even if they are frequent, and all
the nitty-gritty would be packed away in a macro.
J.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)" <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>
To: <r...@ronware.org>; "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"
<xetex@tug.org>
Sent: 01 August 2010 10:13
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...
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 in \vsplit ? As you can take
a copy of your boxes, and then vsplit them, 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 you think ?
** Phil.
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