[luatex] LuaMetaTeX ";" syntax in \numexpr
Joseph Wright
joseph at texdev.net
Mon Mar 25 18:22:03 CET 2024
On 25/03/2024 17:20, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 3/25/2024 6:05 PM, Joseph Wright wrote:
>> 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
>> "%")?
> as luatex is frozen, what's there will stay
I was talking specifically about LuaMetaTeX :)
Joseph
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