[tex-live] filename case issues in arabtex
Jonathan Kew
jonathan_kew at sil.org
Wed Jul 12 10:41:29 CEST 2006
Hi Klaus,
I've become aware that the arabtex package as found on CTAN includes
two copies of the file "unash.fd", differing only in the case of the
filename:
/tex-archive/language/arabtex/texinput/Unash.fd
/tex-archive/language/arabtex/texinput/unash.fd
The contents of the two files is identical; even the \ProvidesFile
macro gives the lowercase form in both files.
The existence of the two copies leads to problems when checking-out
from a copy of the CTAN package to a case-insensitive volume.
Therefore, would you mind removing Unash.fd from the package? There
should be no need for this file even on case-sensitive systems, and
my understanding is that current LaTeX conventions call for all-
lowercase filenames, although the code will check for both.
In addition, it might be desirable to rename
/tex-archive/language/arabtex/texinput/Uxnsh.fd
with an all-lowercase name, for consistency, although this does not
currently cause problems as there is no second copy. (This file also
has \ProvidesFile with a lowercase name.)
Thanks,
Jonathan
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