Dependencies

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Thu Nov 7 10:02:28 CET 2019


On Thu, 07 Nov 2019, David Carlisle wrote:
> Yes, since the earliest drafts of latex2e latex goes to some lengths
> to avoid the primitive missing file error loop where you have to give
> it a file.
> so it does \n \openin and \ifeof check first and only use \input if
> the file is there and raises a normal \errormessage if not.

And does breaks on-the-fly installation via hooking into mktextex. I
know it is not enabled by default, but it can be enabled, call into
tlmgr, and install the necessary files!

Best

Norbert

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