[luatex] LuaMetaTeX ";" syntax in \numexpr

Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schuster.lists at gmail.com
Mon Mar 25 18:19:26 CET 2024


Joseph Wright schrieb am 25.03.2024 um 18:05:
> Hello all,
>
> The current LuaMetaTeX docs say that \numexpr is extended to include
> division with truncation using ":". They don't, however, mention that
> ";" will be interpreted as mod. The new \numexpression includes mod
> functionality using "%", although it also seems to accept ";".
>
> Before I make some non-trivial macro changes to allow for this
> (https://github.com/latex3/latex3/issues/1518), can I check if ";" is
> intended to work but is simply undocumented, or if it's been left as an
> oversight and might therefore be dropped from the code  (in favour of 
> "%")?

The information is just missing from the manual and will be added by Hans.

Wolfgang



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