Ron Aaron wrote:
On Saturday 31 July 2010 23:25:24 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: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.Hi, Phil -- That turns out to be a red-herring -- since even: \message{marks are \firstmark,\botmark^^J} gives no joy...
Yes, the other clue is in your preceding message :
Yes, absolutely sure. I wonder if my problem stems from the "mark" being inside a vbox? If that's the problem, I don't know how I would get around it
See TB p.~259 : "Similarly. a \mark that occurs in internal vertical mode goes into a \vbox, and it is not accessible in the main vertical list." ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
