[OS X TeX] Re: XeTeX and pdfpages: no dice?

[Andreas Matthias]

Jonathan Kew wrote:

> I'd guess there are some kinds of PDF file that the clever macro
> code  for counting pages can't quite understand.

I found a bug concerning line breaks and have fixed that. Nevertheless
there is still one problem. The macro uses the following loop:

    \@whilenum\count@<256 \do{%
      \catcode\count@=9
      \advance\count@ by 1
    }%

And it seems that I am missing a lot of characters concerning XeTeX.
How many character codes does XeTeX have? I have found

   @d biggest_char=65535 {the largest allowed character number;

but such a big number causes a TeX capacity exceeded error.

What is the correct number in the above loop to ignore all
characters?


Ciao
Andreas


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