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

[Ron Aaron]

I'm trying to get a range of numbers (of footnotes) for each page.  So my 'footnote' macro does "\mark{n}" right before the footnote symbol in the body text.  Then, in my "output" routine I'm trying to get the list of footnotes:

	\ifx\firstmark\null\count0=0\else\count0=\number\firstmark\fi
	\ifx\botmark\null\count1=0\else\count1=\number\botmark\fi
	\message{Marks on page range: \number\count0/\number\count1^^J}


I'm always getting back "0" even though the marks are inserted.

This is driving me crazy -- does anyone have a clue?  I'm using XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian), if that makes a difference.

Thanks!
Ron


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