[tex-live] Unprefixing Unicode math primitive in lualatex

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Wed Jan 30 22:07:36 CET 2013


Hi all,

In LuaTeX 0.75.0, tex.extraprimitives() supports a new keyword 'umath'
that returns all Unicode math primitives (the \U* primitives), so it
will be possible to have them prefixed separately from the rest of new
LuaTeX primitives, so I adapted lualatexiniconfig.tex to provide them
unprefixed. So if one is using LuaTeX >= 0.75.0, the primitives can be
used prefixed or unprefixed e.g. \luatexUmathcode or \Umathcode.

In parallel to this, XeTeX 0.9999 supports the \U prefix for those
primitives, so now it should be possible to write cross-engine code with
less conditionals (provided that one is sticking to the subset of
Unicode math primitives supported by both engines of course).

Regards,
Khaled


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