[Dev-luatex] \primitive for non-primitive

[Hironobu Yamashita]

Hi,

LuaTeX raises "Missing primitive name" error for the following:

\primitive\NONE
\end

PDFTeX (\pdfprimitive) and XeTeX (\primitive) simply ignores non-primitive, as
the PDFTeX manual says

This command executes the primitive meaning of the following control sequence,
regardless of whether the control sequence has been redefined or made undefined.
If the primitive was expandable, \pdfprimitive expands also.
On the other hand, if the following control sequence never was a primitive,
nothing happens and no error is raised.
(In some versions of pdfTEX prior to 1.40.19, an error was wrongly given.)

Hironobu Yamashita

[Hans Hagen]

Post by Hironobu Yamashita
Hi,
\primitive\NONE
\end
PDFTeX (\pdfprimitive) and XeTeX (\primitive) simply ignores non-primitive, as
the PDFTeX manual says

This command executes the primitive meaning of the following control sequence,
regardless of whether the control sequence has been redefined or made undefined.
If the primitive was expandable, \pdfprimitive expands also.
On the other hand, if the following control sequence never was a primitive,
nothing happens and no error is raised.
(In some versions of pdfTEX prior to 1.40.19, an error was wrongly given.)

\suppressprimitiveerror = 1

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[Hironobu Yamashita]

Hi Hans,

Post by Hans Hagen
\suppressprimitiveerror = 1

Thanks;
Now that pdfTeX/XeTeX defaults to suppressing the error,
isn't it better to change the default value to 1?

Hironobu

[Hans Hagen]

Post by Hironobu Yamashita
Hi Hans,

Post by Hans Hagen
\suppressprimitiveerror = 1

Thanks;
Now that pdfTeX/XeTeX defaults to suppressing the error,
isn't it better to change the default value to 1?

we don't follow these engines, but a format can default this value to 1
of course (esp if we can debate what default behavious is cq. when that
changes in other engines); in fact, in most cases in luatex we just make
something an option via a parameter

Hans


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