Vladimir Volovich wrote:
"TH" == Taco Hoekwater writes:
Thus I am still missing the rationale why a new primitive was introduced. (I didn't find anything within my backlog of this list and the list archive is missing a search functionality.) [...] TH> So yes, the primitive is unneeded in 'pdfetex', but it was really TH> needed when there still was a non-etex pdftex.
so did the need for this primitive become moot, since there will only be pdfetex from now on? the less unneeded things, the better. :)
well, it's been around since version 1.21 so ... if we start removing features using the etex/whatever criterium, much more can be removed and we end up with broken macro packages; (and we can probably remove 75% of the whole tex tree too -) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------