Am Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:45:04 +0100 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
>> Naturally luatex can add new primitives (and should do it) like >> pdftex has done it. And you will never be able to avoid that such a >> new primitive clash somehow. But nevertheless I think it would be >> very useful if the names of the primitives would use an uniform >> prefix -- even more as luatex is not stable and new primitives can >> arise or disappear again. Prefixes like \pdf of pdftex and \XeTeX of >> xetex create a simple namespace and enable package writers to avoid >> _future_ conflicts with new primitives simply by not using the >> prefix. > > You do realise that you are argueing for the creation of > > \XeTeXsuppressfontnotfounderror > and > \LuaTeXsuppressfontnotfounderror > > instead of just the single new primitive \suppressfontnotfounderror > that Jonathan and I came up with and implemented? You could use \uniTeX as prefix for commands that affects both "unicode" engines ;-). But a bit more serious: I do understand that it will probably not possible to get a completly strict and consistent naming scheme. But an imperfect naming scheme is in my opinion better than none at all. -- Ulrike Fischer
