Re: [NTG-pdftex] Synchronization

Martin Schröder wrote:

2008/2/11, Hans Hagen :

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I agree that a name like \pdfsynchronize is more user friendly, but the advantage of synctex is that it can also be used in the CLI... as I said the string "synctex" is also some kind of keyword.

LAURENS Jérôme wrote: the policy for pdftex is not to introduce new primitives unless preceded by \pdf ... (not that i care that much because macro packages can deal with it but for latex it was considered a problem as there are many packages out there we don't know of), so such is life ...

This isn't really an issue anymore with \pdfprimitive. :-)

huh? that's not so much different from a bunch of \let \mysavedwhatever \whatever and that was rejected (\primitive is not something that end users will use and i never could convince the team to not use the \pdf primitive als, if so, we should start rename the existing \pdfwhatevers

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anyhow, even if we use a non prefixed primitive, i'd like a more verbose one

\synchronizeoutputstate

or, actually, it belongs to the trace family

\traceoutputpositions

or so; since we're talking tex here, the tex in \synctex is somewhat strange; of course you can call your mechanism as such, but that;s a different matter

Agreed. And we shouldn't forget to include Johnathan in the discussion, since this should also end up in XeTeX. :-)

(btw, is there an indication of the speed penalty and influence on the memory footprint when this feature is not enabled?) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------