[tex-live] Kpathsea in TL2007

[Zdenek Wagner]

2007/2/17, Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 10:09:57AM +0000, Philip & Le Khanh wrote:
>
> > Akira Kakuto wrote:
> > >
> > >I forgot to write about a small difference between
> > >Windows and other systems concerning the order of
> > >file search.
> > >
> > >[1] Windows
> > >    (a) \input foo
> > >        try foo.tex first, if not found then try foo
> > >
> > >[2] Other systems
> >
> > >    (c) \input foo.bar
> > >        try foo.bar.tex first, if not found then try foo.bar
> >
> > The behaviour as described for Windows seems logical (indeed,
> > required) to me : imagine one has
> >
> >       \input letter-spacing.sty
> >
> > then surely one would want letter-spacing.sty to be
> > loaded, and not letter-spacing.sty.tex, even if the
> > latter existed.
>
> But (a) prevents that "foo" can be loaded if
> both "foo" and "foo.tex" exist. :-(
>
> Therefore I prefer a new \input primitive that uses
> curly braces (such as \pdfximage) without default
> extension. Then it would be possible to reliable
> address each file name (including spaces, quotes, ...)
>
It is not a good idea because \input{foo} is a LaTeX macro and assumes
to load foo.tex if it exists. It can make things confusing.

> Yours sincerely
>   Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
>


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