On 1/11/2021 3:34 PM, Linas Stonys wrote:
Nice to hear that pdftex |is not frozen totally. Could you please implement \localleftbox| and |\localrightbox macros from luatex (or Omega) to pdftex?| These are very useful macros for example I use it for links break in DVI mode. Where I close the active link on the line break and reopen it on the next line. And this perfectly works in page breaks, footnotes, floats These are primitives, not macros, and being primitives they depend on core engine functionality. Now, I'm not sure to what extend pdftex is extended in fundamental ways but these local boxes are more substantial:
- they demand whatsit nodes that register these boxes (as they can change any time) - they use some non-standard list management (as they can be used multiple times) - they also result in an adaptation of the (post) line break routines So, it probably makes more sense to use luatex in dvi mode. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------