[luatex] Primitive oddities

[Hans Hagen]

On 6/24/2015 10:34 AM, 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?

more because we want to give time to adapt ... the \pdf* names that are 
unrelated to pdf will go away eventually

Hans

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