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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \ReadFile in MkII vs MkIV
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:28:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0511A24C-C978-4DE9-804D-1995071C957E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1010171313130.7119@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>


Am 17.10.2010 um 19:21 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:

> It works, but does not fit my need. I wanted to add an option to the filter module to allow the user to say:
> 
> \setupexternalfilters[directory=$TEMP]
> 
> and have all the tmp files created in $TEMP. Having to set this as a relative path will be really ugly.
> 
> I am just looking for macro that takes the filename as a (brace delimited) parameter and typesets it. I can define one on my own; but I thought that \ReadFile is already supposed to do that.
> 
> It is straight forward to "fix" \ReadFile so that absolute paths work:
> 
> \unexpanded\def\readfile     #1{\doreadfile{any} \empty{#1}}
> \unexpanded\def\ReadFile     #1{\doreadfile{any} \empty{#1}\donothing\donothing}
> 
> I just wondering if the current behavior is a design decision or an oversight.

What i get from the comments in the source is that \readfile looks for the requested file
in the current directory, the parent directories and the tex directory and \ReadFile is
a alternative form for \readfile without the second and third argument.

You can define your own command \ReadFilter which is based in \readsetfile or \readfixfile.

Wolfgang

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-17 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-16 21:09 Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 12:50 ` luigi scarso
2010-10-17 17:21   ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 17:27     ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 17:28     ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2010-10-17 17:58       ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 18:06         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-10-17 18:54           ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 20:17             ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-17 21:02               ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 22:23                 ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-17 20:15         ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-17 20:50           ` Aditya Mahajan

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