Re: How to add directory to input path?

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 15:31, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 21.07.2009 um 14:28 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>
>> Thanks. So basically there's no way to convince \input to work
>> "properly" (that is: respecting some additional input path) in mkii?
>> (In mkiv it seems to work, but it could be that that's just because it
>> interacts with its own "kpathsea".)
>
> The question is should \input kn MkIV behave like it did in MkII
> or should it take subdirectories into account.

I see no serious reason speaking against that.

>> But then I have another question. I actually wanted to use that inside
>> a module (gnuplot) that uses something like
>>
>>   \processmyfile[#1][#2]{
>>       ....
>>       \readlocfile{#2}{}{}
>>       ....
>>   }
>>
>> I wish I remembered why I decided for \readlocfile (I guess it was for
>> error handling that is still waiting to be implemented). How should I
>> change the module in this particular case? (What should I use instead
>> of \readlocfile, so that the file will be found?)
>
> What behaviour do you want?
>
> I would expect when I load a file it should found in the current directory
> or the TeX tree but not in subdirectories, when you want to take
> subdirectory
> searching I would use something like
>
> \setupgnuplot[directory={,myplots/}]

Hmmm ... that's not a bad idea either.

> \def\inputgnuplotfile#1%
>  {\!!donefalse
>   \def\doinputgnuplotfile##1%
>     {\doiffileelse{##1#1}
>        {\readlocalfile{##1#1}{}{}\!!donetrue\quitcommalist}
>        {\!!donefalse}}
>   \processcommacommand[\gnuplotparameter{directory}]\doinputgnuplotfile
>   \!!ifdone\message{gnuplot}{...}\else\message{gnuplot}{file #1 not
> found}\fi}

Thank you very much. I'll build this into the module. I can actually still use
    \processcommacommand[,\gnuplotparameter{directory},\allinputpaths]
with your code :) :) :)

Mojca
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