[NTG-context] Re: start/stopregister

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 4/25/2024 4:51 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 25 Apr 2024, at 16:45, Thomas A. Schmitz <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/25/24 16:13, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>>> I’m using it like
>>> \startregister[index][bibliografie]{Bibliografie}
>>> …
>>> \stopregister[index][bibliografie]
>>> i.e. very similar to your example, and can confirm it doesn’t result in a page range in the index. Also gives no error.
>>
>> Since I've become an expert on tuc files since yesterday (ha!): if I compare the tuc from a mkiv and a mkxl run, I see that mkiv produces an entry ["lastrealpage"]=9 in the references table, mkxl doesn't. This appears to be the relevant bit, and it is connected with the replacement of realpageno by c_realpageno in line 638 of strc-reg.lmt
>>
>> references.lastrealpage = texgetcount(c_realpageno)

Let's seen if we can make Thomas more of an expert as he's zooming in on 
the issue:

             extendregister {
                 metadata   = { name =  name },
                 references = { abel =  label },
             }

Let me know if you't see it.

> Possibly related: I noticed last week that mkxl does not update the legacy counter \pageno any more for every page.
i'll check it

Hans

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