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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: pdf file not found (final question)
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:22:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8CFE4E.2020708@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100912131042.GA7004@gaston.couberia.bzh>

On 12-9-2010 3:10, Peter Münster wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12 2010, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 12-9-2010 8:41, Peter Münster wrote:
>>
>>> - or don't ever use "*" in a filename?
>>
>> in all our projects we normalize to a-z and a dash, otherwise you
>> always get into problems esp when graphics come from a third party
>> ... multiple spaces in names, funny case mixing, underscores not
>> seen on low res displays, mismatches between source and real names,
>
> I totally agree. In my own projects I do the same. The question is rather: is
> context supposed to support the "*" in filenames, or not.

it depends ... in some places I process patterns and then the * is 
special in lua so for the moment consider '*' and '?' and such are 'not 
to be used in filenames'

Hans

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-12 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-10 12:25 pdf file not found Peter Münster
2010-09-10 13:37 ` Hongwen Qiu
2010-09-10 15:57 ` Hans Hagen
2010-09-10 16:12   ` Peter Münster
2010-09-10 16:56     ` Hans Hagen
2010-09-10 19:27       ` Peter Münster
2010-09-10 19:36         ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-10 19:36         ` Vnpenguin
2010-09-12  6:41 ` pdf file not found (final question) Peter Münster
2010-09-12  7:20   ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-09-12 11:24   ` Hans Hagen
2010-09-12 13:10     ` Peter Münster
2010-09-12 16:22       ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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