On 2009-03-07 20:02:17 +1030, Robin Fairbairns
<[email protected]> said:
(i'm not even a particularly long-
serving user of tex, having only started in 1987.)
Hmmm, perhaps you don't want to know what *I* was doing in 1987 :)
* * *
Anyway, if the LaTeX team is serious about preventing backwards
compatibility problems, then we should do things like rename LuaTeX
primitives into a "namespace" such that older documents won't be
affected (within reasonable expectations of what naming schemes are
being used in the wild).
I could imagine a future LaTeX configuration file doing something like
the following to ensure that documents written for legacy versions of
LaTeX still compile without problems.
\ifluatex
\let\formatname\lua...@formatname\let\formatname\@undefined
...
\fi
W
