Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by h1439878.stratoserver.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-2build1) with SMTP id p02MxTwh017566 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:59:30 +0100 Received: (qmail 19794 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2011 22:59:20 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Jan 2011 22:59:20 -0000 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay2.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.210.211] by mx0.gmx.net (mx052) with SMTP; 02 Jan 2011 23:59:20 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p02Mvphv008899 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:57:51 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p01N14ju014420; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:57:49 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 772010 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:57:49 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p02MvnB0021573 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:57:49 +0100 Received: from freefriends.org (b0.f7.net [66.148.120.132]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p02MvcQC004444 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:57:42 +0100 X-Envelope-From: karl@freefriends.org X-Envelope-To: Received: from freefriends.org (sls-af11p1 [127.0.0.1]) by freefriends.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p02MvY1Q006719 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 17:57:37 -0500 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/submit) id p02MvY3v006718; Sun, 2 Jan 2011 22:57:34 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: nobody set sender to karl@freefriends.org using -f Message-ID: <201101022257.p02MvY3v006718@freefriends.org> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 22:57:34 GMT Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Karl Berry Subject: Re: LaTeX3 and engines To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: <4D20DEAF.8070103@morningstar2.co.uk> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p77e5KAPs1l6v/Sb97LojnDtMgfETrECMLUO9erHzOJe+OynZRhvlGqb5A0X bbiCt2rAnnct/NAlbHMvoAL6GY+23tB3khNK7bnSLVW+CwI5D12EFi8O0kjG6WQoWUyJZa/tsAeZ e++4A==V1; X-Resent-By: Forwarder X-Resent-For: rainer.schoepf@gmx.net X-Resent-To: rainer@rainer-schoepf.de Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6509 this is a primitive, so it belongs in the pdfTeX manual and not in anything from LaTeX. We're still talking about \pdfstrcmp? Paul Isambert, Thanh, Hartmut, .., and I recently (Nov'10) released an update to the pdfTeX manual which includes that, among other "missing" primitives which had been implemented for years but never inserted into the doc. http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/pdftex/manual/ Best, Karl