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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Rodolfo Medina wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Rodolfo Medina <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rodolfo.medina@gmail.com"><rodolfo.medina@gmail.com></a> writes:
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<pre wrap="">Fine, thanks... but how can I translate it into simple plain TeX,
i.e. processing the file with `tex test' rather than xetex...?
...in particular, that \ifcsname which is undefined in plain TeX...
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With some effort (yours, not mine !). Peter B. very kindly gave us
\ifcsname, Jonathan K equally kindly gave us \primitive -- I
personally cannot imagine life without them, nor would I want to go
back to those awful 8-bit days. I seem to recall that \ifx \csname
dict:#1\endcsname \undefined will behave <i>similarly</i> to
\ifcsname dict:#1\endcsname, but will cause \csname
dict:#1\endcsname to be \relax as a side-effect. This won't matter
in your case, because I have deliberately post-defined it as \relax
anyway, but it should be borne in mind if you decide to use \ifx
\csname elsewhere ...<br>
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** Phil.<br>
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