On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:01:29AM +0300, Élie Roux wrote:
> this mininal example fails with tex.enableprimitives('',
> tex.extraprimitives()) in the (plain) format :
>
> \directlua{tex.enableprimitives('testprefix', {'attribute'})}
>
> \testprefixattribute 3 = 4
>
> \pdfprimitive\attribute 4=5
>
> \pdfprimitive\testprefixattribute 3 = 4
>
> \end
>
> it says "Missing primitive name on l7". Is it normal ?
Afaik yes.
> This behaviour
> looks strange to me, as testprefixattribute should be a primitive...
Yes, but that doesn't matter, it needs the original primitive name.
The purpose is, to get the primitive meaning, even if the command
is redefined later as macro or whatever, e.g. after
\let\attribute\hbox
\pdfprimitive\attribute
you get the original meaning of \attribute, not a \hbox.
Yours sincerely
Heiko <[email protected]>
