Thanks to Hans Hagen. \newcount\eTeXversion \eTeXversion = 2000 \newcount\eTeXrevision \eTeXrevision = 0020
In the top of my tex file fixed the problem. Jorge > On 10 Mar 2020, at 14:06, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On 3/10/2020 11:32 AM, Henri Menke wrote: > >> There are still people trying to run TikZ on plain TeX with the Knuth >> engine: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920368 > > hm, so you can't actually use etex goodies unless you emulate them > >>> \newcount\eTeXversion \eTeXversion = 2000 >>> \newcount\eTeXrevision \eTeXrevision = 0020 >> Hm, I need something that *all* eTeX engines provide that I can check. >> And these seem to have met that requirement. I really don't want to >> write a huge cascade of if-s to test for different engines. > > I'll add dummies then but be aware that you actually should test for the > primitives that you expect because I'm not even sure if luatex bumped the > number. As you mention "all" it means that you expect differences because > "all" implies differences here. What if someone runs a very old > (experimental) etex. > > (\scantokens, \readline, \detokenize, \savingvdiscards are likely to be > untouched .. it depends on what primitives you expect to use) > > > Hans > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
