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From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: XeTeX, ConTeXt and font/filename quote char
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:28:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121229102849.GA27733@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50D70C0E.1050704@wxs.nl>

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 02:50:06PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 12/23/2012 7:29 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Some people have been complaining that it is not possible to use XeTeX
> >with filenames containing parenthesis because XeTeX treats it as
> >filename quote char and this it gets stripped. Anyway, after some
> >searching it turned out this was added in 2004 for ConTeXt to workaround
> >some MetaPost quotation issue[1].
> >
> >Now I'm not sure if this is still needed/used by ConTeXt and was
> >wondering if it can be dropped now?
> 
> I don't know .. tests must show this. I never use(d) XeTeX myself
> apart from generating a format to if that works. I have no problem
> with changing something given that it doesn't break something.

I’m going to drop it until somebody complains, it is such an obscure
feature, not documented anywhere and no other engine supports such
quoting.

Regards,
Khaled
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-23  6:29 Khaled Hosny
2012-12-23 13:50 ` Hans Hagen
2012-12-29 10:28   ` Khaled Hosny [this message]

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