Re: bug in \externalfigure

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 8/1/2013 4:43 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:01:27 +0200
> luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I think that the advice of omitting the file extension given in
>>> most LaTeX introductions is more trouble than it is worth in
>>> ConTeXt. Omitting file extensions is important if you are
>>> generating both dvi and pdf outputs. In ConTeXt, one never uses the
>>> DVI output, so I think that one should ALWAYS specify the file
>>> extension. That removes a lot of headaches with the wrong file
>>> being sourced.
>>>
>>> +1.
>
> -1
>
> One might have png, jpeg, pdf, eps and other figure files. The choice
> of which will be used depends eventually on where the file is to be
> found... (and setupexternalfigures). This is a *feature*. It has
> nothing to do with LaTeX.
>
> Of course, one can always specify an extension explicitly if one so
> wishes...
>
> Furthermore, the file extension is simply a convenient label which
> makes no difference whatsoever on any serious system. (but not so on
> more primitive operating systems. ;)

actually it's not that primitive as it helps to identify what we're 
dealing with (e.g. in the source and backend use different code paths 
for identifying the dimensions, conversion and inclusion)

Hans


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