[NTG-pdftex] [ pdftex-Patches-469 ] \currentexpansionmode + \ifalignscanning - \ifinedef

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Patches item #469, was opened at 2006-01-12 02:39
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Status: Open
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Submitted By: Morten Høgholm (morten)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: \currentexpansionmode + \ifalignscanning - \ifinedef

Initial Comment:
Here's a patch made against pdftex-1.40.0-alpha-20060111.  It 
removes the \ifinedef primitive for a different primitive, namely 
\currentexpansionmode. This read-only register is 0 when doing 
regular typesetting, 1 when inside \edef or \xdef and 2 in other 
cases of full expansion with scan_toks. It could possibly be 
extended to distinguish between \marks and \write etc. Comments 
more than welcome on this one!

I have also added an \ifalignscanning test. It is true whenever TeX 
is looking for \noalign etc. so is most useful for a 
\stopalignscanning function defined as 
  \def\stopalignscanning{\ifalignscanning\relax\fi}


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>Comment By: Morten Høgholm (morten)
Date: 2006-01-13 05:50

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Yes, just ideas here, which is why I asked for comments. We can discuss 
this on the list (once my subscription is accepted).

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Comment By: Taco Hoekwater (taco)
Date: 2006-01-12 11:22

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Like Hans, I also prefer separate if primitives, mainly
because I do not want to have to remember the meanings 
of the possible integer values (for that reason, I'm not 
too happy about \currentgrouptype either). 

Taco

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Comment By: Nobody (None)
Date: 2006-01-12 10:14

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i wonder why we need \ifalignscanning or \stopalignscanner
at all when
eTeX already has this feature - any \protected macro stops the
scanning.


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Comment By: Hans Hagen (hagen)
Date: 2006-01-12 09:08

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somehow i think that if's are a better idea than a register
because in your case the register only registers one case at
the same time

(when i saw this patch the first time, i wondered why not a
complete set was implemented) 

- ifincsname
- ifinedef
- ifinwrite
- ifinspecial
- ifinpdfliteral 
- ifinannotbody
- ifinmessage (special case of write)
- ifinalign
- ifinmark 

probably some more (ok, normally all those conditions can
comfortably be catched in a macro package but if we add
them, we should be complete 

in addition to this there can be a register which keeps
track of the innermost one (we can have ifcsname inside an
edef inside an align 

concerning the \stopalignscanner i think it's better to have
something primitive like \crcr, say \endalign because using
if's can have its own problem 

(we should not worry to much about a name clash, since one
can always let it to another one); so, we should wait with
adding this patches till (1) we agree and (2) it is complete 

remark: also, it's dangerous to add patched before a decent
decission/interface is dediced upon; once it's in, we cannot
change it any more 


Hans 

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