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[ pdftex-Patches-469 ] \currentexpansionmode + \ifalignscanning - \ifinedef
by noreply＠sarovar.org 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Patches item #469, was opened at 2006-01-12 02:39 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=469&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Morten Høgholm (morten) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: \currentexpansionmode + \ifalignscanning - \ifinedef Initial Comment: Here's a patch made against pdftex-1.40.0-alpha-20060111. It removes the \ifinedef primitive for a different primitive, namely \currentexpansionmode. This read-only register is 0 when doing regular typesetting, 1 when inside \edef or \xdef and 2 in other cases of full expansion with scan_toks. It could possibly be extended to distinguish between \marks and \write etc. Comments more than welcome on this one! I have also added an \ifalignscanning test. It is true whenever TeX is looking for \noalign etc. so is most useful for a \stopalignscanning function defined as \def\stopalignscanning{\ifalignscanning\relax\fi} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Taco Hoekwater (taco) Date: 2006-01-12 11:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1608 Like Hans, I also prefer separate if primitives, mainly because I do not want to have to remember the meanings of the possible integer values (for that reason, I'm not too happy about \currentgrouptype either). Taco ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody (None) Date: 2006-01-12 10:14 Message: Logged In: NO i wonder why we need \ifalignscanning or \stopalignscanner at all when eTeX already has this feature - any \protected macro stops the scanning. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Hans Hagen (hagen) Date: 2006-01-12 09:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=927 somehow i think that if's are a better idea than a register because in your case the register only registers one case at the same time (when i saw this patch the first time, i wondered why not a complete set was implemented) - ifincsname - ifinedef - ifinwrite - ifinspecial - ifinpdfliteral - ifinannotbody - ifinmessage (special case of write) - ifinalign - ifinmark probably some more (ok, normally all those conditions can comfortably be catched in a macro package but if we add them, we should be complete in addition to this there can be a register which keeps track of the innermost one (we can have ifcsname inside an edef inside an align concerning the \stopalignscanner i think it's better to have something primitive like \crcr, say \endalign because using if's can have its own problem (we should not worry to much about a name clash, since one can always let it to another one); so, we should wait with adding this patches till (1) we agree and (2) it is complete remark: also, it's dangerous to add patched before a decent decission/interface is dediced upon; once it's in, we cannot change it any more Hans ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=469&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Patches-469 ] \currentexpansionmode + \ifalignscanning - \ifinedef
by noreply＠sarovar.org 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Patches item #469, was opened at 2006-01-12 07:09 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=469&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Morten Høgholm (morten) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: \currentexpansionmode + \ifalignscanning - \ifinedef Initial Comment: Here's a patch made against pdftex-1.40.0-alpha-20060111. It removes the \ifinedef primitive for a different primitive, namely \currentexpansionmode. This read-only register is 0 when doing regular typesetting, 1 when inside \edef or \xdef and 2 in other cases of full expansion with scan_toks. It could possibly be extended to distinguish between \marks and \write etc. Comments more than welcome on this one! I have also added an \ifalignscanning test. It is true whenever TeX is looking for \noalign etc. so is most useful for a \stopalignscanning function defined as \def\stopalignscanning{\ifalignscanning\relax\fi} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody (None) Date: 2006-01-12 14:44 Message: Logged In: NO i wonder why we need \ifalignscanning or \stopalignscanner at all when eTeX already has this feature - any \protected macro stops the scanning. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Hans Hagen (hagen) Date: 2006-01-12 13:38 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=927 somehow i think that if's are a better idea than a register because in your case the register only registers one case at the same time (when i saw this patch the first time, i wondered why not a complete set was implemented) - ifincsname - ifinedef - ifinwrite - ifinspecial - ifinpdfliteral - ifinannotbody - ifinmessage (special case of write) - ifinalign - ifinmark probably some more (ok, normally all those conditions can comfortably be catched in a macro package but if we add them, we should be complete in addition to this there can be a register which keeps track of the innermost one (we can have ifcsname inside an edef inside an align concerning the \stopalignscanner i think it's better to have something primitive like \crcr, say \endalign because using if's can have its own problem (we should not worry to much about a name clash, since one can always let it to another one); so, we should wait with adding this patches till (1) we agree and (2) it is complete remark: also, it's dangerous to add patched before a decent decission/interface is dediced upon; once it's in, we cannot change it any more Hans ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=469&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Patches-469 ] \currentexpansionmode + \ifalignscanning - \ifinedef
by noreply＠sarovar.org 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Patches item #469, was opened at 2006-01-12 01:39 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=469&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Morten Høgholm (morten) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: \currentexpansionmode + \ifalignscanning - \ifinedef Initial Comment: Here's a patch made against pdftex-1.40.0-alpha-20060111. It removes the \ifinedef primitive for a different primitive, namely \currentexpansionmode. This read-only register is 0 when doing regular typesetting, 1 when inside \edef or \xdef and 2 in other cases of full expansion with scan_toks. It could possibly be extended to distinguish between \marks and \write etc. Comments more than welcome on this one! I have also added an \ifalignscanning test. It is true whenever TeX is looking for \noalign etc. so is most useful for a \stopalignscanning function defined as \def\stopalignscanning{\ifalignscanning\relax\fi} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Hans Hagen (hagen) Date: 2006-01-12 08:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=927 somehow i think that if's are a better idea than a register because in your case the register only registers one case at the same time (when i saw this patch the first time, i wondered why not a complete set was implemented) - ifincsname - ifinedef - ifinwrite - ifinspecial - ifinpdfliteral - ifinannotbody - ifinmessage (special case of write) - ifinalign - ifinmark probably some more (ok, normally all those conditions can comfortably be catched in a macro package but if we add them, we should be complete in addition to this there can be a register which keeps track of the innermost one (we can have ifcsname inside an edef inside an align concerning the \stopalignscanner i think it's better to have something primitive like \crcr, say \endalign because using if's can have its own problem (we should not worry to much about a name clash, since one can always let it to another one); so, we should wait with adding this patches till (1) we agree and (2) it is complete remark: also, it's dangerous to add patched before a decent decission/interface is dediced upon; once it's in, we cannot change it any more Hans ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=469&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Patches-469 ] \currentexpansionmode + \ifalignscanning - \ifinedef
by noreply＠sarovar.org 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Patches item #469, was opened at 2006-01-12 02:39 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=469&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Morten Høgholm (morten) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: \currentexpansionmode + \ifalignscanning - \ifinedef Initial Comment: Here's a patch made against pdftex-1.40.0-alpha-20060111. It removes the \ifinedef primitive for a different primitive, namely \currentexpansionmode. This read-only register is 0 when doing regular typesetting, 1 when inside \edef or \xdef and 2 in other cases of full expansion with scan_toks. It could possibly be extended to distinguish between \marks and \write etc. Comments more than welcome on this one! I have also added an \ifalignscanning test. It is true whenever TeX is looking for \noalign etc. so is most useful for a \stopalignscanning function defined as \def\stopalignscanning{\ifalignscanning\relax\fi} ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=469&group_id=106

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pdftex-1.40.0-alpha-20060111
by Martin Schröder 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

http://sarovar.org/download.php/895/pdftex-1.40.0-alpha-20060106-20060111.d… http://sarovar.org/download.php/896/pdftex-1.40.0-alpha-20060111.tar.bz2 - new patches: - 466 \primitive and \ifprimitive - 467 \ifinedef - improved patches: - 393 Ensure newline before endstream - pdfTeX now sets /ModDate and /Trapped by default (the values can be overridden with /pdfinfo) - more fixes to remove warnings from -Wall Have fun Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de

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pdftex-1.40.0-alpha-20060106
by Martin Schröder 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

http://sarovar.org/download.php/890/pdftex-1.40.0-alpha-20051226-20060106.d… http://sarovar.org/download.php/891/pdftex-1.40.0-alpha-20060106.tar.bz2 - many small fixes to remove warnings from -Wall - removed some unused variables - really fix bug 444 - add some GCC extensions and use *nprintf instead of *printf where possible - fixed a unicode bug in ttf2afm Have fun Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de

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[ pdftex-Patches-467 ] new primitive \ifinedef
by noreply＠sarovar.org 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Patches item #467, was opened at 2006-01-10 04:32 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=467&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: The Thanh Han (hanthethanh) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: new primitive \ifinedef Initial Comment: This patch (by Morten Høgholm) contains improvement for the \ifincsname primitive and implements a new similar primitive \ifinedef. Made against pdftex-1.40.0-alpha-20060106 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=467&group_id=106

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/ModDate and /Trapped (was: [pdftex] PDFX3 Standard)
by Martin Schröder 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

On 2003-10-27 12:32:06 +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: > On 2003-10-27 12:38:19 +0100, Siep Kroonenberg wrote: > > /ModDate (D:\pdfdate) > > Will set this in the next version > > > /Trapped (False) > > Another primitive... :-{ Hi, we forgot about /ModDate and /Trapped. Any objections against setting /ModDate to the same value as /CreationDate per default? And should we also default /Trapped to /False? Best Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de

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[ pdftex-Bugs-393 ] Ensure newline before endstream
by noreply＠sarovar.org 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Bugs item #393, was opened at 2005-07-25 16:09 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=393&group_id=106 Category: None Group: v1.30.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 2 Submitted By: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Assigned to: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Summary: Ensure newline before endstream Initial Comment: As reported by Hans, there is not always a newline before endstream, although the PDF reference recommends it. Any change needs careful testing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2006-01-06 23:45 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 Implementation of pdf_end_stream() changed: Last byte within any stream written to the PDF file is now remembered in pdf_last_byte, so that one can check if a separate pdf_new_line_char "\n" is needed before "endstream". No need to look back in maybe already flushed pdfbuf. Patch to 1.40.0-alpha-20060106. Plus a few tiny patches. Regards, Hartmut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=393&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Patches-466 ] \primitive and \ifprimitive
by noreply＠sarovar.org 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Patches item #466, was opened at 2006-01-07 17:22 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=466&group_id=106 Category: Primitives Group: v1.40.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 4 Submitted By: Taco Hoekwater (taco) Assigned to: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Summary: \primitive and \ifprimitive Initial Comment: This patch implements two new primitives: \primitive \par This will run the 'primitive' command \par, even if it has been re- or undefined in the meantime. \primitive is not expandable, because it may be asked to execute unexpandable primitives as well as expandable ones. If you supply a nonexistant primitive, it will be ignored (no error is raised). The second primitive is a new type of \if: \ifprimitive \par ... \else .. \fi returns true if the current meaning of \par is the 'primitive' command \par. The patch is against alpha-20051226, i hope that is not too old (?). I expect to do at least one minor update during the beta cycle, after the pdftex code is flattened. It was quite a struggle to make this change file work ok, and as a result, there are a few ugly web hacks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=466&group_id=106

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