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David Kastrup wrote:
Change file, or would be a patch to luatex.web (respective to the latest SVN version) be ok? In other words: if I do the code, will someone else volunteer for turning this into some change file form or other that would make it propagate elsewhere (stable PDFTeX? I suppose it would be somewhat pointless to get it incorporated into eTeX, since eTeX does no longer seem to make it into binaries on its own, but exists mostly just as a changeset).
Personally, I believe it is better to base yourself on pdftex. I have a system set up where migrating stuff from pdftex to luatex is easy for me. When it works, I will port to luatex, no problem. Be warned though, the input buffer is not used *only* for file reading. Good luck, Taco