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8 Apr
2007
8 Apr
'07
3:34 a.m.
"TH" == Taco Hoekwater writes: TH> In LuaTeX I will follow the eTeX paradigm, and this particular TH> command will be called \primitive. Only PDF-related commands will TH> have a \pdf prefix. and LuaTeX later is going to be merged into pdftex... what will happen to the primitive names, then? if you will have renamed most of them (with stripped "pdf" at the beginning), it will create another messy situation. so it seems safer to stick to the already used names, otherwise there will be a mess of prefixed and non-prefixed names (i personally also don't like the prefix, but since it is already used, it should be retained in both pdftex and luatex). Best, v.