On 29 June 2015 at 23:20, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/29/2015 10:57 PM, David Carlisle wrote: >> >> etex and xetex can not use registers higher than 256 with \insert, however >> the following plain tex works without error with luatex >> >> >> >> \mathchardef\footins=1000 >> >> qqq\footnote{1}{zzz} >> >> \bye >> >> Can this be relied on, and luatex will accept the full box register >> range with \insert? > > > sure
Thanks for the confirmation. > >> If so could \insert be added to the manual in section 2.4 where \box >> \count etc >> are listed as accepting 16-bit numbers, >> >> Thanks >> >> David >> >> (It would be nice to avoid the ugly \reserveinserts trick used with etex >> to >> preserve space for inserts below 256, but I'm wary of using >> undocumented features) > > > you can use a different \outputbox > > Hans > > Sure that's documented (2.7.12) but no way to infer from that that you can use \insert with numbers bigger than 255 is there? David
