Re: pagemark code works no more with arranging 3SIDE

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 22:19 08/08/2003 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>Hello esp. Hans!
>
>I told you more than once about my address book. ;-)
>You wrote this nice code for me,
>that calculates the first and last name on the page:
>
>---
>
>\def\RegisterPageMark#1#2% #1=Class #2=Text
>         {\iftrialtypesetting \else
>         \doglobal\increment\MNamCounter%
>         \textreference[#1:t:\MNamCounter]{#2}%
>         \doifreferencefoundelse{#1:t:\MNamCounter}
>         {\doifundefined{#1:f:\currentrealreference}%
>         {\setxvalue{#1:f:\currentrealreference}%
>         {\noexpand\in[#1:t:\MNamCounter]}}
>         \setxvalue{#1:l:\currentrealreference}%
>         {\noexpand\in[#1:t:\MNamCounter]}}%
>         {}%
>         \fi}
>
>\def\GetFirstOnPage#1{\getvalue{#1:f:\realfolio}} % #1=Class
>\def\GetLastOnPage#1{\getvalue{#1:l:\realfolio}} % #1=Class
>
>\setupheadertexts       [][\GetFirstOnPage{MNam}--\GetLastOnPage{MNam}]
>
>\def\Name#1{\bf #1\RegisterPageMark{MNam}{\FirstNCharacters{4}{#1}}}
>
>---
>
>It doesn't work with the arranging "3SIDE" or even "XY" with three pages 
>on A4 landscape.
>The headers show only the dash.
>I can't tell how arranging is involved in this counter stuff.
>
>Is there a simple solution?

Can you make me a small test file?

Hans
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