On 5/23/2019 1:47 AM, Henri Menke wrote:


On 23/05/19 11:36 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 5/23/2019 1:11 AM, Henri Menke wrote:
Dear devs,

The two macros \lastxpos and \lastypos should behave like registers,
because that is what they are in LuaTeX.  The following MWE fails with

! You can't use `the character 0' after \the

\starttext
\the\lastxpos
\the\lastypos
\stoptext

A simple fix would be to wrap the macro in \numexpr like in the attached
patch.

hm, i was actually about to drop them completely ... anyway, i have no
problem with the fix but then it also need to be \unexpanded
   (i'm reshuffling some code so probably no beta for a few days)

Dropping \pdflastxpos and \pdflastypos would break TikZ, so it would be
good if at least the \lastxpos and \lastypos primitives would be
accessible.
ok, but i assume that there is no need for the \pdf* ones (because i decided to drop all those specific \pdf* aliases in the next beta ... they were never meant to be persistent part of mkiv) ... i grepped tikz and could not find usage of \pdf... apart from the official luatex ones

(actually, tikz is the only package i know that we need to keep an eye on wrt downward compatibility; context modules use different interfaces)

Hans


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