Re: Calculated Header Text

[Henning Hraban Ramm <angerweit@gmx.net>]

Am Montag, 22. Juli 2002 00:47 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> Bad luck: TeX cannot handle marks that are burried deeply (as in
> alignments)

What a pity! It could be so easy...

> Good Luck: We can fake 'm (using a few low level user macros)
>
> \def\RegisterPageMark#1#2% #1=Class #2=Text
>    {\iftrialtypesetting \else
>       \doglobal\increment\NameCounter
>       \textreference[#1:t:\NameCounter]{#2}%
>       \doifreferencefoundelse{#1:t:\NameCounter}
>         {\doifundefined{#1:f:\currentrealreference}
>            {\setxvalue{#1:f:\currentrealreference}%
>               {\noexpand\in[#1:t:\NameCounter]}}%
>          \setxvalue{#1:l:\currentrealreference}%
>            {\noexpand\in[#1:t:\NameCounter]}}%
>         {}%
>     \fi}
>
> \def\GetFirstOnPage#1{\getvalue{#1:f:\realfolio}} % #1=Class
> \def\GetLastOnPage #1{\getvalue{#1:l:\realfolio}} % #1=Class

Looks complicated -- and doesn't work either.
That is, it shows nothing in the header as before.
I tried the \getvalue... outside the tabulation and the whole thing with other 
names than "Name" -- nothing.

Not even your recurse-example works.

> >How can I get the first
> > n characters of a text?

> \def\getthreetokens#1%
>    {\dogetthreetokens#1\empty\empty\empty\relax}
>
> \def\dogetthreetokens#1#2#3#4\relax
>    {#1#2#3}

But that works! Thank you!

> An alternative is to use the boundtext and limitatetext (nicer) macros
> described in supp-box

Yeah, even better, so I can define the max width not only as "3 chars".

Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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