[luatex] Hyphenation in plain TeX

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Le 08/10/2010 16:17, Taco Hoekwater a écrit :
> On 10/08/2010 04:04 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>>> Given that the author of this file (Peter B.) has a much deeper understanding of
>>> the innards of TeX that I'll probably ever have, I assume there is some
>>> mechanism in e-TeX's \dump that prevents him from using space on undefined
>>> macros. But maybe I misinterpreted his intentions here.
>>>
>>> Maybe Taco can enlighten us on this particular point?
>>
>>    I'm curious too.  The experiments I ran in order to answer a question
>> (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/323/what-macros-are-defined-in-a-web2c-format-file)
>> on tex.stackexchange led me to believe that all control sequences that
>> were defined at some point left some remnants in the format file, but I
>> may be wrong, of course.
> 
> All csnames that have ever been defined are part of the string pool
> and are thus dumped in the format, but that is not true for the actual
> token lists that are their definition: these are actually thrown away
> if at top-level the definition is cleared.
> 
Thanks for this clear explanation.

Btw, as far as luatex is concerned, what's the status of the string pool? I
guess you'll want to get rid of it at some point, using standard C strings
instead, am I right?

m