Re: [Dev-luatex] pdftexversion, OmegaVersion etc.

On 30-11-2010 1:30, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

On 30 November 2010 Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 30-11-2010 12:09, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:

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On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:49:32 -0700, Khaled Hosny wrote:

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I was wondering, since luatex is not a direct replacement of pdftex, omega or aleph, what is the point of having such primitives? Wouldn't it be more cleaner of they are removed or is there any use for them?

It may be that Yannis and other omega users still need them. luatex used be a direct replacement for aleph (well, almost), so that with little mods one could run an aleph file once upon a time....

The translation filters already have been removed a while ago so old omega code will not run as expected. Also, the number of directions has been limited (after we discussed it with John at eurotex).

Do you propose to drop \Omegaversion because you changed the Omega code and forgot to increase the version number? :)

we could have decreased the number instead and then at version 0 drop the primitives anyhow, we don't need to carry around primitives that have no use as in a macro package one can define then as macro: if luatex then omegaversion is n Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------