Elie Roux <[email protected]> wrote: > I have some discussions with Karl Berry, and we are confronted with an > important issue: > > Some additional macros are needed (or at least really logical to add) > for plain, like (basically) \newattribute. The best thing (in my > opinion) would be to put them in Plain, so that when the user calls > 'luatex', these macros are loaded, like the pdftex and etex > macros. Do some people oppose this?
you can't "put <x> in plain" -- plain is under knuth's licence, and if you add to it/otherwise change it, you change the name. so you build a new format for "plain" luatex, the source of which loads plain.tex and then does its own thing. this is the way pdftex and xetex deal with the matter; for example, pdftex.ini is \input pdftexconfig.tex \input plain \dump \endinput robin
