Will Robertson wrote: >> 1) Are there any other missing primitives? The other \every... >> primitives should (I think) not be used outside of the kernel, and so >> don't need to be worried about. > > Hmmmm, I actually think that we *should* provide access to these via a > well-defined mechanism. That might be an xpackage job, or maybe they'd > fit into \toks. But I'd hate to have to give them up (the reason they're > banned in LaTeX is just that they get overwritten, right? At least in > the case of \everypar). Okay, I'd suggest all in \toks_ (remembering that we'll need to pick up the primitives not the LaTeX2e versions for l3in2e). I guess we will need to do the same as LaTeX2e for the initex version of expl3, and remove direct access to the primitives in user space? > There > are also a bunch of pdfTeX primitives we're not using. I was imagining that this (being one of those engine-dependent things) was "for later". -- Joseph Wright