From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/83629 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: bug in \externalfigure Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:55:57 +0200 Message-ID: <51FA76FD.9020903@wxs.nl> References: <027C1595-7898-4B75-A677-BA4C24FE9B3F@icloud.com> <20130801130854.GA8003@homerow> <20130801164302.2eb1c8d7@iram-hb-003386.extra.cea.fr> 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 1375369186 2949 80.91.229.3 (1 Aug 2013 14:59:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:59:46 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 01 16:59:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V4uIy-0002cz-Sf for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:56:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE21101E4; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:56:05 +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 lt1FzKCibi8Z; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:56:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E394101F6; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:55:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035C7101F6 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:55:54 +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 QZAi+UL7YS+z for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:55:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-utr.mf.surf.net (filter3-utr.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.154]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87879101F1 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:55:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-utr.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r71EuH6m029828 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:56:17 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.0.4.10; Original-Received: from [10.0.4.10] (unverified [10.0.4.10]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.3c2) with ESMTP id 13940-1713362 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:56:16 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: <20130801164302.2eb1c8d7@iram-hb-003386.extra.cea.fr> 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=15; city=Zwolle; latitude=52.5058; longitude=6.0858; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5058,6.0858&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 08K7qUhMp - 2510a2c5d8c1 - 20130801 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.154 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:83629 Archived-At: On 8/1/2013 4:43 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:01:27 +0200 > luigi scarso wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Aditya Mahajan >> 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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________