[NTG-pdftex] Extensions: \pdf$foo or \$foo?

[Hans Hagen]

Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

> Thus if we add \match, then the newsgroups are full of \match
> isn't working if I use chess and pdflatex ... And the people
> would remember, pdfTeX causes problems.

eh .. i can imagine that they are surprised that the primitive \match does not 
work, but any package that defines its own will since it overloads the primitive

btw, i suppose that the switch to etex also caused problems for latex then?

anyhow, i have no problem with a prefix, how about:

\ext (extensions) -> \extmatch


they are not pdftex specific (hence no p prefix) and they can as well end up in 
jonathan's xetex (i'll discuss it with him when the patches are ready)

Hans



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