Questions tagged tex-core seem to demand answers in plain TeX (or at least plain TeX macros + some extensions as required), even if the same solution is entirely applicable in LaTeX, ConTeXt or some other situation. In questions such as reversing the order of expansion, we (currently) have one answer using expl3 and a second which loads some pre-packaged material to do the job. Both are good answers, but I wonder how other people see this. Should we encoruage answers to tex-core which are
- Plain TeX (i.e. they finish
\bye
) - Stand-alone (no pre-packaged code used)
I ask because if people really want to learn TeX internals then they'll need to have things demonstrated in primitives (or at least primitives plus a small set of basic macros such as \@firstofone
).
{TeX}
, although it is not very explicitly stated).expl3
is it avoids re-coding the same things again and again). I guess it partly depends on whether the question is asking for a particular idea to be explained at a low level.