Am 11.01.25 um 12:30 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
Sure.
I’m proud to have found several features that you forgot about ;)
ah, so you now make a nice certificate that you can put behind you when
we chat
Will do ;)
Do you also give out cheques? ;)
Back to macros (I read lowlevel-macros, at least tried to…):
While I liked \define, it looks like it just doesn’t make sense anymore
if I need (\tolerant)\def for anything advanced anyway?
You stress how costly named macros are – then we should forget about
MkLX mode?
Did I understand correctly, that bracketed = optional parameters is just
a convention, i.e. only the handling of arguments makes them optional,
not their definition/fencing?
With \tolerant, we can not only forget about the last dodos (and even
single dos), but also about \dosingleargument & friends, right?
Are there cases where the MkIV way still makes sense with LMTX?
When does it make sense to define macros in Lua (interfaces.implement)?
Obviously, if I need calculations or I/O operations that are easier to
do in Lua. Are there disadvantages of Lua-defined vs. TeX-defined macros?
Hraban
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