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

[John Was]

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?  My 
(personalized) \fn macro has almost at the start:

 \global \advance \notenumber by 1

(I have \newcount\notenumber as a standard part of my file headers.)

Your footnote macro will have something comparable, and the marks would have 
to be invoked after this advancing of the number, so actually part of your 
footnote macro - perhaps something like '\mark{\the\ notenumber}' - not 
sneaked in just before it gets to work.

Good luck anyway!


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)" <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: 31 July 2010 21:25
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...


>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 
>> '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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