Will Robertson wrote: > On 2009-03-05 18:49:15 +1030, Taco Hoekwater <[email protected]> said: > >> For example, right at the start of luatex, we threw out a bunch of >> primitives from Heiko Oberdiek and myself that provide various scripting >> subroutines for use inside pdftex. > > I'm curious, are these the primitives like \pdfescape..., \pdfmdfivesum, > \pdf...deviate, \pdffilemoddate, and so on? (Sorry, I'm not up to date > on all of the new primitives of LuaTeX.)
Yes, exactly. >> If there was a functional proposal for namespaces, I would gladly >> implement that and put the new primitives in a dedicated namespace. > > Did the namespace idea of the ExTeX team never work in practice? I > really liked that idea, what little I read of it... I only know of it as a presentation given in pont-a-mousson, and I would be interested to hear how it worked out in the wild. Best wishes, Taco
