[luatex] Primitive oddities

[Joseph Wright]

On 24/06/2015 09:34, Joseph Wright wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm currently looking over the list of primitive names as given by e.g.
> tex.extraprimitives("luatex"). I notice a couple of oddities.
> 
> Primitive \luatexbanner is down in the "pdftex" set. I assume this
> should be in the "luatex" set? (The text I get is the same as for
> \pdftexbanner but I imagine the latter will get dropped at some stage.)
> 
> The docs say that \primitive, \ifprimitive, \ifabsdim and \ifabsnum are
> provided without the "pdf" part of the names that is present in for
> these in pdfTeX. However, they are in both the "pdftex" and "luatex"
> sets. Moreover, the 'new' versions still point to the older ones, for
> example
> 
>     > \primitive=\pdfprimitive.
>     l.1 \show\primitive
> 
> Is this deliberate?
> --
> Joseph Wright
> 

Perhaps related, I see that the "pdftex" set contains \pdfreplacefont
but can't find that in the pdfTeX manual!
--
Joseph Wright