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Paweł Jackowski wrote:
Taco Hoekwater napisał(a):
But nothing seems to gets noticed until it is in the mainstream application (and no longer marked experimental), so having a separate pdfxtex quite likely will not help. I am not against reviving pdfxtex, but I doubt there is much to be gained from it.
Agree - it wouldn't help but I'm rather against reviving xtex. I can't see anything wrong in adding new features to the mainstream *if* they remain (some kind of) a secret. Unless not mentioned in release notes or documented (afair \quitmode was not), the primitive does not exist for the end-user but for developers. Please don't make pdf*tex's again -)
indeed. also, some new features are harmless, so they quickly reach a 'stable' state while others may interfere (most noticably the font related extensions) and those are kept 'undocumented' until proven stable (may take more that a year); in the past such features even got their interfaces changed while testing; because they can be disabled (and then don't interfere) they can safely be part of the mainstream pdftex having two versions would make testing very painful 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------