From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27208 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Nikolai Weibull" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: What would you call the core TeX-commands Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:28:52 +0200 Message-ID: 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 1145287979 1362 80.91.229.2 (17 Apr 2006 15:32:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:32:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Apr 17 17:32:56 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 1FVViH-0001T9-Vr for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:32:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A769B1277E; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:32:29 +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 24387-02; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:32:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C679D12780; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:28:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA16112780 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:28:54 +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 23907-02-2 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:28:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.224]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id A74451277E for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:28:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i5so676924wra for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.65.186.16 with SMTP id n16mr859009qbp; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.64.142.16 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:28:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <4443593B.5000400@elvenkind.com> Content-Disposition: inline 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:27208 Archived-At: 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. Thanks! nikolai