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Subject: Re: What would you call the core TeX-commands
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Hans Hagen wrote:
> Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> 
>>If you had to name the core TeX-commands something, what would it be?

the normal word is "primitives". If that can't be done, using "initex"
make most sense. We often use the word 'core' to refer to ConTeXts
macro commands (as Hans said already).

Cheers, Taoc