[luatex] plain LuaTeX

Heiko Oberdiek oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de
Mon Feb 9 21:38:44 CET 2009


On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:25:54AM +0100, Elie Roux wrote:

> Robin Fairbairns a écrit :
> >you can't "put <x> in plain" -- plain is under knuth's licence, and if
> >you add to it/otherwise change it, you change the name.
> >
> >so you build a new format for "plain" luatex, the source of which loads
> >plain.tex and then does its own thing.
> >
> >this is the way pdftex and xetex deal with the matter; for example,
> >pdftex.ini is
> >
> >  \input pdftexconfig.tex
> >  \input plain
> >  \dump
> >  \endinput
> >  
> 
> Ok, sorry for my wrong vocabulary... the question with the good words 
> would be (I think) to know if someone opposes the fact that luatex.ini 
> gets \input luatexconfig.tex added in it, with luatexconfig being 
> additional macros like \newattribute.

BTW, luatex.sty also supports plain-TeX and adds \newattribute.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>


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