[luatex] [lltx] issue with unicode-math, spanish and LuaLaTeX

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Tue Jul 12 17:25:07 CEST 2011


On 07/12/2011 04:57 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote:
>
> The second pattern is used to save a math code and restore it later. You
> could save the math code in an integer register or macro, but then you
> couldn't use that as a mathematical character shorthand.
> I don't know what reasons Knuth had to introduce special syntax for
> \chardefs/\mathchardefs,

Some byte-saving or hash-saving or time-saving measure, I'll wager.

> but I think most TeX users expect this syntax
> to be present.

Sure, I assume so. \Umathcharnumdef moved to the list for 0.80.0.

Best wishes,
Taco



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