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Hello Taco, On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 04:18:41PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
AFAIK, an expression with \primitive will become expandable if and only if the primitive is expandable. (pdfTeX: \pdfprimitive)
I am thinking about this bug.
Please look at the attached patch against pdftex trunk. I have a similar patch in luatex now, and it works ok for your example file as well as some other stuff I tried.
Yes, many thanks.
The patch makes scan_something_internal (for \number and the other convert commands) and scan_int (other places where numbers are needed) skip over the unexpandable version of \primitive so that it looks at the next token, and if that token is a primitive, it uses this instead.
If the next token is not a primitive at all, then a frozen \relax is inserted, as that is probably the best thing to do. I have considered reporting an error, but that is too unpredictable for my taste (and a "Missing number" error will likely follow anyway).
Please check against any other tests you may have.
If the next token is not a primitive, then it vanishes:
\def\sx{\immediate\write16{[\meaning\x]}}
% ok:
\edef\x{\pdfprimitive\pdfoutput}
\sx % [macro:->\pdfprimitive \pdfoutput ]
% token vanishes in the next cases:
\edef\x{\pdfprimitive0}
\sx % [macro:->]
\edef\x{\pdfprimitive123}
\sx % [macro:->23]
\expandafter\def\expandafter\x\expandafter{\pdfprimitive0}
\sx % [macro:->]
\edef\x{\pdfprimitive\Undefined}
\sx % [macro:->]
\edef\x{\pdfprimitive $}
\sx % [macro:->]
[\pdfprimitive 0] % []
% An error message I could trigger by:
\chardef\a=10 %
\pdfprimitive\a X
! Missing control sequence inserted.
<inserted text>
\inaccessible
<to be read again>
X
l.70 \pdfprimitive\a X
Yours sincerely
Heiko