From 8c643a470efebb3de6e2ab0011b88232422b43b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:41:02 +0000 Subject: Rationale update for primitive prefixing. git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@15401 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751 --- Master/texmf/tex/generic/config/lualatexiniconfig.tex | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Master/texmf/tex') diff --git a/Master/texmf/tex/generic/config/lualatexiniconfig.tex b/Master/texmf/tex/generic/config/lualatexiniconfig.tex index 2061c9fe54d..dcca3a3cecf 100644 --- a/Master/texmf/tex/generic/config/lualatexiniconfig.tex +++ b/Master/texmf/tex/generic/config/lualatexiniconfig.tex @@ -26,8 +26,12 @@ % highly undesirable if LuaTeX is to replace pdfTeX as the default engine % some day, and still undesirable even if it does not, anyway, since some % level of compatibility never hurts. -% 3. The LuaTeX team refused to apply a systematic prefixing policy, but +% 3. The LuaTeX team doesn't want to apply a systematic prefixing policy, but % kindly provided a tool allowing to apply it. So we chose to use it. +% Previously, we even disabled the extra primitives, but now we feel it's +% better to enable them with systematic prefexing, in order to avoid that +% each and every macro package (or user) enables them with various and +% inconsistent prefixes (including the empty prefix). % 4. The 'luatex' prefix was chosen since it is already used as a prefix for % some primitives, such as \luatexversion: since way, those promitive don't % end up with a double prefix (see tex.enableprimitive in the luatex manual -- cgit v1.2.3