[tex-live] case sensitivity
Robin Fairbairns
Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Tue Jul 11 18:40:38 CEST 2006
> I guess this is inadvertent, as they have identical contents; but it
> makes it impossible to check out a working copy to a case-insensitive
> volume. So could we please remove one of the [Uu]nash.fd files?
>
> There is also a file Uxnsh.fd in the same directory, but this has no
> lowercase counterpart. For comparison, there is also uheb.fd, which
> is also related to font encoding "U" but has an all-lowercase name.
>
> My suggestion would be to remove "Unash.fd", and also rename
> "Uxnsh.fd" to "uxnsh.fd" for consistency; I notice that within
> Unash.fd, for example, it says \ProvidesFile{unash.fd} with the
> lowercase form.
your recommendation would be correct according to the thinking that
the latex project has: lowercase files are preferred, but nfss always
checks for the uppercase version.
that \ProvidesFile could cause tedious warning messages.
r
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