[texworks] Still an un resolved problem

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 10 July 2009 Alain Delmotte wrote:

 > But, as far as I remember, one should *not* give the extension (.tex) 
 > with \input. I have had cases were at typesetting an error occurred 
 > saying that the file name.tex.tex was not found.

No, \input always accepts an extension.  And it doesn't append .tex to
a filename which has an extension already.  What you are talking about
is \include.  The latter is a LaTeX macro which expects the basename
only.

Suppose that \input doesn't allow you to specify any extension, how
could you \input{name.aux}?  Note that \input is a primitive and
\include, \includegraphics, ... are macros depending on it.

If the argument of \input doesn't have an extension, ".tex" is added
automatically.   However, I think that this was a very bad decision.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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