From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/62686 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \ReadFile in MkII vs MkIV Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:15:55 +0200 Message-ID: <4CBB597B.9070000@wxs.nl> References: <0511A24C-C978-4DE9-804D-1995071C957E@gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287346584 15898 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2010 20:16:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:16:24 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Oct 17 22:16:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P7ZeV-0001vr-C8 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:16:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34029CA75C; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:16:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id U8QSeeaBWAxT; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:16:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F51DCA73E; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:16:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85172CA73E for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:16:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id mf0ap5dPCdND for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:16:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (filter2-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.70]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8645ECA6F6 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:16:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id o9HKG1xh020975 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:16:02 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.101; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 4.3g4) with ESMTP id 9915-1713362 for multiple; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:13:32 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 ThunderBrowse/3.3.2 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0rDjUg130 - 399e9c4f2913 - 20101017 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:62686 Archived-At: On 17-10-2010 7:58, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > >> >> Am 17.10.2010 um 19:21 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: >> >>> It works, but does not fit my need. I wanted to add an option to the >>> filter module to allow the user to say: >>> >>> \setupexternalfilters[directory=$TEMP] >>> >>> and have all the tmp files created in $TEMP. Having to set this as a >>> relative path will be really ugly. >>> >>> I am just looking for macro that takes the filename as a (brace >>> delimited) parameter and typesets it. I can define one on my own; but >>> I thought that \ReadFile is already supposed to do that. >>> >>> It is straight forward to "fix" \ReadFile so that absolute paths work: >>> >>> \unexpanded\def\readfile #1{\doreadfile{any} \empty{#1}} >>> \unexpanded\def\ReadFile #1{\doreadfile{any} >>> \empty{#1}\donothing\donothing} >>> >>> I just wondering if the current behavior is a design decision or an >>> oversight. >> >> What i get from the comments in the source is that \readfile looks for >> the requested file >> in the current directory, the parent directories and the tex directory >> and \ReadFile is >> a alternative form for \readfile without the second and third argument. > > Then the MkII implementation is wrong because it allows absolute paths. > >> You can define your own command \ReadFilter which is based in >> \readsetfile or \readfixfile. > > I wanted something that will work consistently in MkII and MkIV. I can do: > > \doifmodeelse{\s!mkii} > {\let\ReadFilter\ReadFile} > {\def\ReadFilter#1{\doreadfile{any}\empty{#1}\donothing\donothing}} > > but, I wanted to avoid such things if possible :-/ > > (BTW, why is system mode *mkii not set in MkII?) because you can do \doifnotmode{mkiv} ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________