From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31585 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Directories of pictures Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:07:15 +0200 Message-ID: <45406CB3.7030602@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161850049 30926 80.91.229.2 (26 Oct 2006 08:07:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:07:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Oct 26 10:07:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd0Gq-0004tu-79 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:07:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CFA41FF47; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:07:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25924-07; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:07:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B641FF45; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:07:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2831FF47 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:07:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26563-05-3 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:07:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 1981D1FF3E for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:07:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 15179 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:07:12 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:31585 Archived-At: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: >>> Note that ./png-images seems to look for >>> /png-images. >>> >>> >>> >> what is tex_file_directory? >> > > I'm guessing "the directory in which the tex source file lives", what > I often wished TeX used as its search path for relative paths -- the > way some (all?) C compilers will when looking for include files. > it depends on your texinputs variable: \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}] here, default will eventually fall back to tex's input path search \externalfigure[tmp/cow.pdf] but, there need to be a tmp path relative to one of the paths that make up texinputs; in context mkiv we can use more clever methods because there we will have more control over finding and opening files; for now, we depend on what tex and kpse/web2c provide Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------