Re: left.tex won't include left.mp

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 11:30 AM 2/5/01 -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote:
>Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
>
>> At 01:55 PM 2/2/01 -0800, David Arnold wrote:
>> >Hans,
>> >
>> >The file left.tex uses a picture of the Riemann sum.  Strangely enough,
if 
>> >the external figure is named left.1, it is not included in the pdf 
>> >file.  But, if we rename the figure myleft.1 it is included in the pdf
file.
>> 
>> You got me for a moment .... but: figure with the same name as jobname are
>> not handled; this is because it can introduce loops [think of incluidng
>> left.pdf into left.tex that itself becomes an left.pdf] Here we always give
>> figs a nice prefix, like f-left so that we can also 'dir' them
comfortable. 
>> 
>> So, it's a feature -) 
>
>Wow, I didn't know that -- or if I did, I forgot it.  I guess context

oh, then so far you never fell into the trap -) 

>documentation should be sure to impress upon the user that they should
>avoid having figures with the same base name as their document.

Well, i added this quite some time ago when i found out that having figure
names matching the jobname can be very dangerous (esp for your picture). I
can be more liberal some day [say only pdf als eps/ps or so], but for the
moment it's for all suffixes.  

Hans
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