From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27209 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: What would you call the core TeX-commands Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:38:41 +0200 Message-ID: <4443B681.1050205@wxs.nl> References: <4443551D.1000601@wxs.nl> <4443593B.5000400@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145288348 2632 80.91.229.2 (17 Apr 2006 15:39:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Apr 17 17:39:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVVoU-0002fe-Bt for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:38:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8981D1279A; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:38:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24387-05; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:38:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39BF12784; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:38:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD2012784 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:38:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24448-01 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:38:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E5DE12780 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:38:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 12761 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:38:44 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27209 Archived-At: Nikolai Weibull wrote: > On 4/17/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >> 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). >> > > What I meant was, the commands defined in the TeX-executable itself, > i.e., stuff like \def, \global, .... > > I think that initex makes the most sense considering the options. > ctxtools can list them (e.g. --sciteinterface gives several classes of primitives, macros, etc) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------