[XeTeX] Multiple \marks

[John Was]

Dear Jonathan

Ah, at last.  Many thanks.  (I think the conflict with Edmac is likely to 
prove insuperable - but I'm glad you put me on to the correct 
documentation - which I obviously read once but had completely lost track 
of.)

Best wishes


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Kew" <jfkthame at googlemail.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: 16 February 2011 07:56
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Multiple \marks


> On 16 Feb 2011, at 07:42, John Was wrote:
>
>> Hello
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>> I've used multiple \marks in a few jobs where there are several varying 
>> elements that need to go into the running headlines (\marks 1, \marks 2, 
>> etc., instead of plain TeX's single \mark).  For some reason I got it 
>> into my head that this was part of Eplain, but I've just discovered (from 
>> Oleg) that it isn't.  I certainly have these available in plain XeTeX 
>> (where it seems they are simply loaded and available by default), but 
>> since an issue has come up (essentially a conflict with Edmac) I'd quite 
>> like a word with whoever invented multiple \marks.  Can anyone advise? 
>> ('Multiple marks' or 'multiple \marks' is hopeless on Google!)
>>
>
> See http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/e-tex/v2/doc/etex_man.pdf, 
> section 3.6.
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> JK
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