[luatex] macros to invoke lua in LaTeX

Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org
Wed Mar 4 13:35:41 CET 2009


> Oh, great. The pdf prefix was very counter-intuitive in front of some
> primitives, such as \primitive indeed.

  If I remember correctly, the original idea was to add "pdf" in front
of all the primitives that were particular to pdfTeX, and it thus meant
"pdfTeX" and not "PDF", at least originally (am I right?)  But it is
indeed not the most intuitive naming convention.

	Arthur


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