From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/80009 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: XeTeX, ConTeXt and font/filename quote char Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:50:06 +0100 Message-ID: <50D70C0E.1050704@wxs.nl> References: <20121223062924.GA25853@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356270617 3423 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2012 13:50:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:50:17 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 23 14:50:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tmlwm-0004b7-5n for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:50:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8FC10205; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:50:17 +0100 (CET) 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 p3vWRaV6TjMP; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:50:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F265101F9; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:50:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F68101F9 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:50:10 +0100 (CET) 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 6zFLWvaXAWR0 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:50:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4880F101F2 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:50:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id qBNDo8PF004917 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:50:08 +0100 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 6.1c) with ESMTP (TLS) id 460-1713362 for multiple; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:50:03 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <20121223062924.GA25853@khaled-laptop> 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=16; city=Zeewolde; latitude=52.3302; longitude=5.5364; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3302,5.5364&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0NID1O8k0 - f656681cc091 - 20121223 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:80009 Archived-At: On 12/23/2012 7:29 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > Hi all, > > Some people have been complaining that it is not possible to use XeTeX > with filenames containing parenthesis because XeTeX treats it as > filename quote char and this it gets stripped. Anyway, after some > searching it turned out this was added in 2004 for ConTeXt to workaround > some MetaPost quotation issue[1]. > > Now I'm not sure if this is still needed/used by ConTeXt and was > wondering if it can be dropped now? I don't know .. tests must show this. I never use(d) XeTeX myself apart from generating a format to if that works. I have no problem with changing something given that it doesn't break something. Hans (who's never seen filenames with ( ) except for some titles in music repository) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________