[luatex] Proposal to fix the namespace argument

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Mon Mar 9 11:41:24 CET 2009



Will Robertson wrote:
> On 2009-03-09 18:44:42 +1030, Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> said:
>>
>> (apart from the fact that one needs to update the list when luatex
>> provides more primitives or changes their names)
> 
> That's why I was hoping (perhaps as part of the source for the manual?)
> it would be possible to automatically obtain a list of primitives... :)

Oh, that request makes perfect sense.

The next beta will have the lua function

  tex.primitives()

which outputs a table of "name, token" pairs. While waiting for that,
I will generate a list of current new primives compared to pdftex+aleph
and post the results shortly.

Best wishes,
Taco





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