Re: RFE: Better error messages for \usemodule

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Brooks Moses wrote:

> At 11:16 PM 7/16/2005, you wrote:
>
>> Brooks Moses wrote:
>>
>>> After scratching my head over "no macros found in module mymodule", 
>>> I decided to try replacing the line with "\input{t-mymodule}".
>>
>>
>>
>>> This produced the very cryptic result of a "I can't find the file 
>>> 't-mymodule'.  Please type another filename:" error.  However, 
>>> simply using "t-mymodule" as a replacement filename worked fine.
>>
>>
>> The \input with braces is latex-ese. The TeX primitive is
>>   \input t-mymodule
>> and that would have worked.
>
>
> Ah, ok.  I hadn't realized those were different!

There are a few file reading macros, for instance:

\readfile {yourfile.tex} {\message{OK}} {\message{BAD NEWS}}

supp-fil.tex shows a few (global loading, local loading, recursive 
loading, etc) ans in core-fil there are some macros to load files with 
knowledge of system paths and such

>> However, as of ConTeXt release 2005.05.25, the original \usemodule
>> would also have worked: the automatic filename truncation was removed
>> in that version.
>
>
> Good to know; it _did_ seem like something that really was likely to 
> be more of an annoyance than a useful thing.

it was useful in the days that 8+3 filenames were the rule (msdos but 
also cdroms demanded it) and that the tex binaries were not able to 
handle truncated names well

Hans

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