Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-31 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Jul 30, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Alan Munn wrote: On Jul 30, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 30.07.2010 um 22:55 schrieb Alan Munn: The only difference I see is that the orientation of the pages is different. (Not sure what causes that). Are you using Skim? It somehow

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

2010-07-31 Thread Ron Aaron
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

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.07.2010 um 02:47 schrieb George: Did you check whether you have the working xdvipdfmx.cfg file? Is your TeX (Live 2009) distribution up-to-date? Are you able to test your code with (unfinished, testing) TeX Live 2010? How do I check that? Locate the file in your file system(s)

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-31 Thread Alan Munn
On Jul 31, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 31.07.2010 um 03:31 schrieb George: Text placed on connection lines is misplaced. Could this help to understand PS Tricks? \begin{pspicture}(.25\textwidth, 10) \pnode(0.5,1.1){bottomInstructionLine}

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

2010-07-31 Thread 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

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.07.2010 um 23:47 schrieb Alan Munn: The issue is why do these drawings end up placing the text in a different position when compiled with xelatex compared to with latex- dvips-ps2df. Ah, I see it now! For a first start I'd recommend to extract the PS (Tricks) code from the DVI or

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

2010-07-31 Thread Ron Aaron
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

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

2010-07-31 Thread Ron Aaron
On Sunday 01 August 2010 06:23:19 Ron Aaron wrote: On Sunday 01 August 2010 00:47:59 John Was wrote: 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 ... Argggh! That is exactly what my problem is. The \mark{} is