[pdftex] thread primitives

Han The Thanh thanh at informatics.muni.cz
Tue Apr 10 12:22:52 CEST 2001


> There are two sorts of primitives to create threads:
> 
> 1. \pdfthread
> 2. \pdfstartthread and \pdfendthread
> 
> Will both be maintained in future versions of pdftex?
> Is \pdfthread obsolete?

yes both will be supported. \pdfthread is not obsolete. The discussion
behind the syntax of those commands is a little long -- I would recommend
using \pdfthread but in some cases it maybe more comfortable to use the
second ones.

HTH,
Thanh



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