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David Kastrup <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:56:35 +0100
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Frank Mittelbach <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> Laurent,
>
>  > << currently involved with programming a footnote package, I was trying
>  > to get a clue about just when to insert \color@begingroup and
>  > \color@endgroup >>
>  >
>  > Some years ago, you discussed misfeatures of the TeX 3
>  > '\mark'  mechanism and ideas for fixing it.  Are those ideas
>  > adequate for David Kastrup's present purposes?
>
> i'm not sure what you are precisely referring with respect to marks
> at to be honnest, but i doubt it. the problem wih footnotes is that
> they split apart boxes without a decent way to interact with the
> mechanism. that is okay if \mark's are concerned (or specials if
> they simply mark a point in the stream but fails miserably if the
> special is trying to implement a stack of regions

I don't know what a stack of regions is.  My implementation by now
works.  What I do is actually record the complete color stack for the
footnote with a mark whenever a color command gets executed.  I
switch off color stack recording with \color@begingroup since I am
assuming that the concerned box will not be split or land elsewhere
altogether.

The problem was a bit acerbated by the fact that I am using
plain-style footnotes that don't mind \verb and its ilk.  That means
that I catch the end of the footnote with \aftergroup, and the
color-stack related \aftergroup tokens will only make it afterwards
and I can't catch them without reliquishing control, or sweeping them
up with \futurelet or something.  Since I don't like that, I instead
set up effectively a count that tells how many color stack pops are
to be expected and then relinquish control.  The various \reset@color
commands then get executed, do nothing at all, and the last of them
closes the outer group and switches off color stack tracking.

Whenever I split a footnote, I take the relevant color stack info
from my mark, unwind the color stack at the end of the first part of
the footnote, and set it up again at the second part (actually, I do
the color stack setup within a setbox command for the second part
that is nested within a setbox for the first part, so all
\aftergroup\reset@color commands register in the first part).

It's all a bit sick in the head, but tested pretty fine.

--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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