[luatex] incompatible change to mathcode

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Wed May 9 17:04:45 CEST 2012


On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 04:29:05PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 9-5-2012 16:02, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >On May 9, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >
> >>Now that you bring it, do we really need the old aleph variants? They
> >>don't seem to be used anywhere in my full TL installation, so there is
> >>no case of backward compatibility and I see no practical need for them
> >>when we have the new Unicode variants. I'd rather remove them completely
> >>and simplify the code.
> >
> >Personally, I also see little point in the aleph versions of the math char/delimiter
> >primitives. I am reluctant to remove them right away, but as far as I am concerned
> >they can be marked as deprecated. Objections are welcome, of course.
> 
> I bet no one uses those primitives. Let's just kick 'm out. The sam
> eis true for \Aleph* and \Omega* unless we get reports that someone
> really tests for those version numbers (and why).

I'm in favour of this.

Regards,
 Khaled


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