[luatex] ini files for TL 2009

[Elie Roux]

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard a écrit :
> So what exactly is the point of tex.enableprimitives() and hiding 
> primitives in
> the first place?

I think the point is to allow luatex to replace pdfetex as the default 
engine... In this case you cannot provide unprefixed primitives by default.

Let's take an example: someone has a package incompatible with LuaTeX 
primitives, and LuaTeX has replaced pdfTeX. Two cases:

 - if he wants to use LuaTeX, he will type 'luatex', and will get the 
extra primitives, breaking his package. Or, with your system, he will 
load luatextra.sty (or luainputenc.sty that loads luatextra.sty) that 
will load the primitives, and break his package. In both cases the 
system is broken and he'll have to change his files.

 - if he is like 90% of the users and doesn't want to change the files 
he created years ago, he'll use pdftex (which is in fact LuaTeX without 
the extra primitives), and won't load luatextra.sty, so his files won't 
be broken.

So I'm still in favor of enabling the extra primitives in the program 
luatex.

Thank you,
-- 
Elie