30 Jun
2005
30 Jun
'05
10:04 p.m.
Hi, i've asked several everyday-TeX-users (but quite new to pdfTeX) what they think about prefixes. \pdf* prefix for commands not related to PDF are *more* confusing than non-prefixed that may occasionally conflict with macros.
Hans: \ext (extensions) -> \extmatch
IMHO much better than \pdfmatch. However, in 2010 nobody will remember that regex support was an extension in 2005. All prefixes encounter this problem. Thus, I agree with Taco, that if some command can't be grep-ed in representative TeX archives, it can be used as a new primitive. Regards, -- Pawe/l Jackowski P.Jackowski@gust.org.pl