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

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 11:04:49AM +0200, Paul Isambert wrote:
> Selon Philipp Stephani <st_philipp at yahoo.de>:
> 
> >
> > 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 need XeTeX, since it knows how to typeset complex languages
> > > very well (and I really like the font-handling!).
> >
> > AFAIK LuaTeX can handle OpenType fonts as well (because it can use every Lua
> > library). So you might give LuaTeX a try—probably in combination with
> > ConTeXt, since LaTeX support for LuaTeX is still in an early stage.
> 
> Let's not advertise LuaTeX on the XeTeX list!

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 least.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer