[luatex] macros to invoke lua in LaTeX

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Fri Mar 6 10:27:55 CET 2009


Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:

> Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> 
> > i, for one, had never anticipated all the problems with the switch to
> > pdftex; i bet there were those who did, and if this sort of discussion
> > had happened then, we might have avoided the worst of the problems.
> 
> part of the problems were probaly due to the fact that in the process
> of developing pdftex, some primitive names changesd (even the prefix
> changed) simply as part of a cleanup

no: they were (and still are) because of documents misunderstanding what
engine they're using, and deploying the wrong graphics support macros.

otherwise, the change over has been remarkably smooth.

robi


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