>> well, why not >> \input luaplain >> \dump >> ? > > for the same reason we don't have pdfplain.tex and so on: maintenance of > the result.
Yes , I understand this . The fact is that I see luatex radically different from pdftex, etex, tex and so on, so I see luaplain.tex as a sign of discontinuity. It can be also \input plain \input luaextensions \dump -- luigi
