Re: { in input file names

[Hans Hagen Outside <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Nikolai Weibull wrote:

>Hi.
>Another one of my sort of weird questions.  I have a file with { in it's
>  
>
weird indeed, are you searching for the limits of tex/context/your-os?

>file name and context doesn't seem to enjoy it much:
>  
>
i only enjoy names that match [a-z0-9\-]

>% mkdir {test}
>% cd {test}
>% mkdir output
>% touch a.tex && ed a.tex
>0
>0a
>\starttext
>Hello
>\stoptext
>.
>wq
>27
>% texexec --runpath=output a.tex
>  
>
You can put this somewhere (cont-loc.tex or so) since i'm not that sure 
if it does not interfere, so i (and others) need to test this for a long 
time

% supp-fil

\bgroup % todo: _ cleanup

\catcode`\/=\@@active
\catcode`\:=\@@active
\catcode`\~=\@@active

\gdef\sanitizefilename#1\to#2%
  {\bgroup
   \edef/{\string/}%
   \edef:{\string:}%
   \edef~{\string~}%
   \expanded{\xdef\noexpand\sanitizedfilename{#1}}%
   \egroup
   \let#2\sanitizedfilename%
   \convertcommand\sanitizedfilename\to#2}

\egroup

% core-job

\def\usepath[#1]%
  {\def\docommando##1%
     {\doifelse{##1}\v!reset
        {\let\allinputpaths\empty}
        {\sanitizefilename#1\to\ascii
         %\convertcommand\ascii\to\ascii
         \addtocommalist\ascii\allinputpaths}}%
   \processcommalist[#1]\docommando}

\def\usesubpath[#1]% new, see webschrift for usage
  {\ifx\allinputpaths\empty
     \sanitizefilename#1\to\allinputpaths
   \else
     \def\docommando##1%
       {\def\dodocommando####1%
          {\sanitizefilename####1\to\ascii
           \addtocommalist{##1/\ascii}\allinputpaths}%
        \processcommalist[#1]\dodocommando}%
     \processcommacommand[\allinputpaths]\docommando
   \fi}