Ignoring pdftex primitives (Re: BOUNCE Michael John Downes)

[Hans Hagen]

George White wrote:

> It might be useful to have a low-level mechanism to deal with "foreign"
> strings, e.g., by analogy to \verb: \foreign%Filena~1%.

Not that hard to program in macros. The only problematic ones are the %
and #, where the latter shouldn't be, but alas is (this was discussed
with the etex team recently and there are some thoughts on that). BTW,
etex does offer some rescanning features that can serve this purpose. 

Hans

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