[luatex] upcoming release

[Hans Hagen]

On 5/25/2016 1:52 PM, Meer, Hans van der wrote:
>
>> On 25 May 2016, at 12:29, Marco Patzer <lists at homerow.info> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 25 May 2016 10:12:16 +0000
>> "Meer, Hans van der" <H.vanderMeer at uva.nl> wrote:
>>
>>>> On 06 Oct 2015, at 16:55, Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> \let\pdftexversion \luatexversion
>>>
>>> The \luatexversion macro troubles me.
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>  \luatexversion
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> gives the error: You can't use `\luatexversion' in vertical mode
>>
>> \starttext
>>  \the\luatexversion
>> \stoptext
>
> I was fooled by the lookalike \contextversion.
> Still it is a bit strange that one has to call "\the\luatexversion" whereas for the revisionnumber just "\luatexrevision" is the call to place.
> Is it a viable request to ask for a change here and let "\luatexversion" have the effect of what now "\the\luatexversion" does?
> I guess this means to change the name of a register and defining \luatexversion as the access to that register.

nothing will change ... it has been that way with version numbers since 
ages (dates from the time that revision could also be a letter or whatever)

Hans


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