[luatex] plain LuaTeX

Elie Roux elie.roux at telecom-bretagne.eu
Mon Feb 9 11:25:54 CET 2009


Robin Fairbairns a écrit :
> you can't "put <x> in plain" -- plain is under knuth's licence, and if
> you add to it/otherwise change it, you change the name.
>
> so you build a new format for "plain" luatex, the source of which loads
> plain.tex and then does its own thing.
>
> this is the way pdftex and xetex deal with the matter; for example,
> pdftex.ini is
>
>   \input pdftexconfig.tex
>   \input plain
>   \dump
>   \endinput
>   

Ok, sorry for my wrong vocabulary... the question with the good words 
would be (I think) to know if someone opposes the fact that luatex.ini 
gets \input luatexconfig.tex added in it, with luatexconfig being 
additional macros like \newattribute.
-- 
Elie


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