4 Jan
2021
4 Jan
'21
3:53 p.m.
Am Mon, 4 Jan 2021 15:30:43 +0100 schrieb Hans Hagen:
Well we discourage the use of plain commands to avoid that new users trip over bewildering errors from stuff like "abc \hskip 2cm plus cde", but it is not forbidden to use them. Hm, \hskip is not a plain command but a language primitive.
Yes, sorry. I lost the "TeX" from the "(plain) TeX commands" from Henning.
One of those 'persistent' wrong ideas about context is that it somehow is kind of plain
Really? I wouldn't see it this way. I wondered a bit about the number of primitives shown in the document of JoaquĆn, but that they are used certainly doesn't make context like plaintex. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/