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14 Feb
2006
14 Feb
'06
1:48 p.m.
"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. :) Best, v.