* LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name @ 2020-05-28 12:49 Marco Patzer 2020-05-28 15:33 ` Hans Hagen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Marco Patzer @ 2020-05-28 12:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Hi! LMTX and MkIV behave differently if dots are used in the file name. Example: printf '%s\n' '\starttext\null\stoptext' > foo.10.tex && context foo.10.tex MkIV: → foo.10.pdf LMTX: → foo.pdf Is this intentional? This is LuaMetaTeX, Version 2.06.05 current version: 2020.05.25 23:39 Marco ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2020-05-28 12:49 LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name Marco Patzer @ 2020-05-28 15:33 ` Hans Hagen 2020-05-28 15:59 ` Marco Patzer 2020-05-28 16:07 ` Marco Patzer 0 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 2020-05-28 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users, Marco Patzer On 5/28/2020 2:49 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: > Hi! > > LMTX and MkIV behave differently if dots are used in the file > name. Example: > > printf '%s\n' '\starttext\null\stoptext' > foo.10.tex && context foo.10.tex > > MkIV: → foo.10.pdf > LMTX: → foo.pdf > > Is this intentional? consider it to be so Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2020-05-28 15:33 ` Hans Hagen @ 2020-05-28 15:59 ` Marco Patzer 2020-05-28 16:18 ` Hans Hagen 2020-05-28 16:07 ` Marco Patzer 1 sibling, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Marco Patzer @ 2020-05-28 15:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Thu, 28 May 2020 17:33:19 +0200 Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 5/28/2020 2:49 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: > > Hi! > > > > LMTX and MkIV behave differently if dots are used in the file > > name. Example: > > > > printf '%s\n' '\starttext\null\stoptext' > foo.10.tex && context > > foo.10.tex > > > > MkIV: → foo.10.pdf > > LMTX: → foo.pdf > > > > Is this intentional? > > consider it to be so That's unfortunate. 1) The editor workflow with simple suffix replacement .tex → .pdf to open the corresponding PDF file doesn't work any more with lmtx. New logic is needed to find the correct pdf file name. 2) A project (of mine) that uses item numbers as file names (containing dots) compile to the same pdf: MkIV (everything's predictable and fine): 10.10.10.tex → 10.10.10.pdf 10.10.11.tex → 10.10.11.pdf 11.10.11.tex → 11.10.11.pdf LMTX: 10.10.10.tex → 10.10 (not even a PDF suffix) 10.10.11.tex → 10.10 (file 10.10 is over-written) 11.10.11.tex → 11.10 (no suffix) MkIV is way more predictable and consistent in that regard. Marco ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2020-05-28 15:59 ` Marco Patzer @ 2020-05-28 16:18 ` Hans Hagen 2020-05-28 18:31 ` Marco Patzer 2021-07-06 20:43 ` Marco Patzer 0 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 2020-05-28 16:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl >> mailing list for ConTeXt users On 5/28/2020 5:59 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2020 17:33:19 +0200 > Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> On 5/28/2020 2:49 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> LMTX and MkIV behave differently if dots are used in the file >>> name. Example: >>> >>> printf '%s\n' '\starttext\null\stoptext' > foo.10.tex && context >>> foo.10.tex >>> >>> MkIV: → foo.10.pdf >>> LMTX: → foo.pdf >>> >>> Is this intentional? >> >> consider it to be so > > That's unfortunate. > > 1) The editor workflow with simple suffix replacement .tex → .pdf to > open the corresponding PDF file doesn't work any more with lmtx. > New logic is needed to find the correct pdf file name. > > 2) A project (of mine) that uses item numbers as file names > (containing dots) compile to the same pdf: > > MkIV (everything's predictable and fine): > 10.10.10.tex → 10.10.10.pdf > 10.10.11.tex → 10.10.11.pdf > 11.10.11.tex → 11.10.11.pdf > > LMTX: > 10.10.10.tex → 10.10 (not even a PDF suffix) > 10.10.11.tex → 10.10 (file 10.10 is over-written) > 11.10.11.tex → 11.10 (no suffix) > > MkIV is way more predictable and consistent in that regard. I'll look at it but not today ... first I need to play with some other (neat) stuff and run tests. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2020-05-28 16:18 ` Hans Hagen @ 2020-05-28 18:31 ` Marco Patzer 2020-05-29 7:48 ` Hans Hagen 2021-07-06 20:43 ` Marco Patzer 1 sibling, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Marco Patzer @ 2020-05-28 18:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Hans Hagen; +Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Thu, 28 May 2020 18:18:51 +0200 Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > MkIV (everything's predictable and fine): > > 10.10.10.tex → 10.10.10.pdf > > 10.10.11.tex → 10.10.11.pdf > > 11.10.11.tex → 11.10.11.pdf > > > > LMTX: > > 10.10.10.tex → 10.10 (not even a PDF suffix) > > 10.10.11.tex → 10.10 (file 10.10 is over-written) > > 11.10.11.tex → 11.10 (no suffix) > > > > MkIV is way more predictable and consistent in that regard. > I'll look at it but not today ... first I need to play with some > other (neat) stuff and run tests. OK, thanks. No hurry. The production projects run on some oldish 2019 MkIVs anyway. I'm trying to get my feet wet with lmtx and run it on some projects to check how usable and compatible it is. Marco ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2020-05-28 18:31 ` Marco Patzer @ 2020-05-29 7:48 ` Hans Hagen 0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 2020-05-29 7:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Marco Patzer; +Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users On 5/28/2020 8:31 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2020 18:18:51 +0200 > Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >>> MkIV (everything's predictable and fine): >>> 10.10.10.tex → 10.10.10.pdf >>> 10.10.11.tex → 10.10.11.pdf >>> 11.10.11.tex → 11.10.11.pdf >>> >>> LMTX: >>> 10.10.10.tex → 10.10 (not even a PDF suffix) >>> 10.10.11.tex → 10.10 (file 10.10 is over-written) >>> 11.10.11.tex → 11.10 (no suffix) >>> >>> MkIV is way more predictable and consistent in that regard. >> I'll look at it but not today ... first I need to play with some >> other (neat) stuff and run tests. > > OK, thanks. No hurry. The production projects run on some oldish > 2019 MkIVs anyway. I'm trying to get my feet wet with lmtx and run > it on some projects to check how usable and compatible it is. It should be compatible, although at some point there will be functionality that is only in lmtx. Okay, metapost is an exception, because there is a lot in lmtx that is not in mkiv, but that's a separate subsystem anyway. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2020-05-28 16:18 ` Hans Hagen 2020-05-28 18:31 ` Marco Patzer @ 2021-07-06 20:43 ` Marco Patzer 2021-07-07 0:08 ` T. Kurt Bond 1 sibling, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Marco Patzer @ 2021-07-06 20:43 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Thu, 28 May 2020 18:18:51 +0200 Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > LMTX: > > 10.10.10.tex → 10.10 (not even a PDF suffix) > > 10.10.11.tex → 10.10 (file 10.10 is over-written) > > 11.10.11.tex → 11.10 (no suffix) I've checked again with 2021.07.06 18:49 LMTX 10.10.10.tex → 10.10.pdf + 10.log 10.10.11.tex → 10.10.pdf (file 10.10.pdf and 10.log are over-written) 11.10.11.tex → 11.10.pdf > > MkIV is way more predictable and consistent in that regard. > I'll look at it but not today ... first I need to play with some > other (neat) stuff and run tests. A gentle reminder. As by my tests, something has changed in the last months, but the behaviour is still weird (e.g. log files differ from pdf file or 10.10.10.tex results in 10.10.pdf). Is there a chance you can look at that at some point? Marco ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2021-07-06 20:43 ` Marco Patzer @ 2021-07-07 0:08 ` T. Kurt Bond 2021-07-07 18:25 ` Alan Braslau 0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: T. Kurt Bond @ 2021-07-07 0:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1672 bytes --] This is something that has caused me problems in the past, too. On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 4:51 PM Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info> wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2020 18:18:51 +0200 > Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > LMTX: > > > 10.10.10.tex → 10.10 (not even a PDF suffix) > > > 10.10.11.tex → 10.10 (file 10.10 is over-written) > > > 11.10.11.tex → 11.10 (no suffix) > > I've checked again with 2021.07.06 18:49 LMTX > > 10.10.10.tex → 10.10.pdf + 10.log > 10.10.11.tex → 10.10.pdf (file 10.10.pdf and 10.log are over-written) > 11.10.11.tex → 11.10.pdf > > > > MkIV is way more predictable and consistent in that regard. > > I'll look at it but not today ... first I need to play with some > > other (neat) stuff and run tests. > > A gentle reminder. > > As by my tests, something has changed in the last months, but the > behaviour is still weird (e.g. log files differ from pdf file or > 10.10.10.tex results in 10.10.pdf). > > Is there a chance you can look at that at some point? > > Marco > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > -- T. Kurt Bond, tkurtbond@gmail.com, https://tkurtbond.github.io [-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 2858 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 493 bytes --] ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2021-07-07 0:08 ` T. Kurt Bond @ 2021-07-07 18:25 ` Alan Braslau 2021-07-07 19:57 ` Ulrike Fischer ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Alan Braslau @ 2021-07-07 18:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: T. Kurt Bond, Marco Patzer; +Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users Windows, I believe, does not take kindly to filenames containing multiple dots. Therefore, Hans never uses such filenames and does not expect them, either, so I am not surprised that this yields unpredictable results. An unfortunate side-effect of dealing with Windows. Alan On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 20:08:22 -0400 "T. Kurt Bond" <tkurtbond@gmail.com> wrote: > This is something that has caused me problems in the past, too. > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 4:51 PM Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info> > wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 May 2020 18:18:51 +0200 > > Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > > > LMTX: > > > > 10.10.10.tex → 10.10 (not even a PDF suffix) > > > > 10.10.11.tex → 10.10 (file 10.10 is over-written) > > > > 11.10.11.tex → 11.10 (no suffix) > > > > I've checked again with 2021.07.06 18:49 LMTX > > > > 10.10.10.tex → 10.10.pdf + 10.log > > 10.10.11.tex → 10.10.pdf (file 10.10.pdf and 10.log are > > over-written) 11.10.11.tex → 11.10.pdf > > > > > > MkIV is way more predictable and consistent in that regard. > > > I'll look at it but not today ... first I need to play with some > > > other (neat) stuff and run tests. > > > > A gentle reminder. > > > > As by my tests, something has changed in the last months, but the > > behaviour is still weird (e.g. log files differ from pdf file or > > 10.10.10.tex results in 10.10.pdf). > > > > Is there a chance you can look at that at some point? > > > > Marco > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > 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://context.aanhet.net > > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2021-07-07 18:25 ` Alan Braslau @ 2021-07-07 19:57 ` Ulrike Fischer 2021-07-08 18:13 ` Alan Braslau 2021-07-07 20:13 ` Marco Patzer 2021-07-08 9:01 ` Hans Hagen 2 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Ulrike Fischer @ 2021-07-07 19:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: ntg-context Am Wed, 7 Jul 2021 12:25:29 -0600 schrieb Alan Braslau: > Windows, I believe, does not take kindly to filenames containing > multiple dots. > > Therefore, Hans never uses such filenames and does not expect them, > either, so I am not surprised that this yields unpredictable results. > > An unfortunate side-effect of dealing with Windows. Sorry but this is nonsense. I have seen many files with lots of dots in windows and it works fine. I wouldn't do it in tex, but not because of the OS but because until a few years you could run into problems with some tex applications or macros which didn't expect many dots. -- Ulrike Fischer https://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2021-07-07 19:57 ` Ulrike Fischer @ 2021-07-08 18:13 ` Alan Braslau 2021-07-08 19:34 ` Hans Hagen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Alan Braslau @ 2021-07-08 18:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ulrike Fischer; +Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 21:57:27 +0200 Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de> wrote: > Am Wed, 7 Jul 2021 12:25:29 -0600 schrieb Alan Braslau: > > > Windows, I believe, does not take kindly to filenames containing > > multiple dots. > > > > Therefore, Hans never uses such filenames and does not expect them, > > either, so I am not surprised that this yields unpredictable > > results. > > > > An unfortunate side-effect of dealing with Windows. > > Sorry but this is nonsense. I have seen many files with lots of dots > in windows and it works fine. Not nonsense: some MS/Windows filesystems couldn't deal with multiple dots in the filename. That my *now* be history, but wasn't. What is clear is that (perhaps due to this legacy), many programs and packages do not expect to find filenames having many dots. Indeed, *some* filesystem specifications even use "." to delimit file system hierarchy (similarly like / and \). Lua also uses this in table specifications, as does MetaPost for token separation, not mentioning structures in C (and C++). The bottom line is that using "." in a filename is best to be avoided, as are spaces in order to avoid surprises. As to "nonsense" and "Windows bashing", give me a break! (and for Hans, the VMS ";" version specification is a different feature). Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2021-07-08 18:13 ` Alan Braslau @ 2021-07-08 19:34 ` Hans Hagen 0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 2021-07-08 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users, Alan Braslau, Ulrike Fischer On 7/8/2021 8:13 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: > (and for Hans, the VMS ";" version specification is a different > feature). Sure, one being that one ran out of disk space (but there were enough unused accounts with simple passwords to take care of backups) but it would add an interesting challenge (probably some extra parameter in opening a file). (btw, no tex on these vax machines, pretty unknown at that time so we rolled out our own ascii-art formatting / pagination) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2021-07-07 18:25 ` Alan Braslau 2021-07-07 19:57 ` Ulrike Fischer @ 2021-07-07 20:13 ` Marco Patzer 2021-07-08 8:34 ` Hans Hagen 2021-07-08 9:01 ` Hans Hagen 2 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Marco Patzer @ 2021-07-07 20:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 12:25:29 -0600 Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net> wrote: Thank you for your reply. > Windows, I believe, does not take kindly to filenames containing > multiple dots. Disclaimer: I don't use Windows, I know nothing about Windows. But I downloaded a Windows 10 VM and fired it up, installed LMTX, created a file (in the default editor): # file name: 10.10.10.tex \starttext foo \stoptext Then I ran install.bat setpath.bat # LMTX context 10.10.10.tex → 10.10.pdf → 10.log # MkIV context --luatex 10.10.10.tex → 10.10.10.pdf → 10.10.10.log So I can't confirm your findings. MkIV works exactly the same on a vanilla Windows 10 VM than it does on a Unix system and produces correct output files with multiple dots. No issues there. > Therefore, Hans never uses such filenames and does not expect them, > either, so I am not surprised that this yields unpredictable results. > > An unfortunate side-effect of dealing with Windows. My short test above seems to suggest that it's not an OS issue since Unix and Windows behave exactly the same. MkIV (which seems to work fine on Windows) as well as the LMTX issue. But maybe I did something wrong there, in that case please let me know. And Hans said “I'll look at it” a while back, so I just wanted to send a reminder. Since it worked in MkIV it looks like a regression. I mean it used to work. Several of my projects rely on source files with multiple dots. I know it's not common to have multiple dots, but I hope there's chance it might be fixed. But maybe Hans can chime in and clarify. Marco ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2021-07-07 20:13 ` Marco Patzer @ 2021-07-08 8:34 ` Hans Hagen 2021-07-08 13:38 ` Marco Patzer 0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 2021-07-08 8:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users, Marco Patzer On 7/7/2021 10:13 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: > But maybe Hans can chime in and clarify. I have to check it but syffixes and tex are kind of special. It has nothing to do with operating systems (sorry for those who love to bash windows for it). Personally I always use a suffix and don't look into files without them. (On VMS we even had version numbers with the name, which was also nice.) That said: - tex needs to make a log file and an output file (.log, .pdf and maybe more like .tuc) - so, it determines a jobname, which is the input file with the suffix removed - actually it adds a suffix .tex when there is none and then looks for that file - in that respect, .10 is a suffix as is .foo or .pointless - in tds/kpse/web2c there were flags for 'multiple suffixes' (which of course also introduces compatibility issues) - as a side note: filenames are case sensitive unless the operating system makes them insensitive; this has long been yet another reason for bashing windows, but it looks like kpse/web2c now decided it's a good idea so there's also a flag (i think itis true by default) that enables insentivity (context always tried to be insensitive and mkiv/lmtx definitely is) Now, to the issue of names like 10.11.12.13 ... here .13 is the suffix, like it or not, so in principle we then get 10.11.12.log 10.11.12.tuc 10.11.12.pdf if not then indeed there is some issue. Now, although it's quite some work, one can think of seeing .13 as part of the filename, in which case the lookupe becomes 10.11.12.13.tex but we can optionally first check for 10.11.12.13 ... however, because there are many possibel suffixes (.tex being one of them) we then get 10.11.12.13.log 10.11.12.13.tuc 10.11.12.13.pdf but in the case of 10.11.12.13.tex we get 10.11.12.13.tex.log 10.11.12.13.tex.tuc 10.11.12.13.tex.pdf because there is no way to determine any longer that .tex is special (one can argue that .mk* also qualifies but what about .xml and all variants on that). Al this means that personally I always stick to (1) lowercase filenames (2) with no spaces (3) only a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and - (4) always with a suffix ... it never gives issues. (If you ever had to deal with third party files, especially graphics made by third parties, you'd know that most problems come from bad filenames where for instance a single space or multiple spaces and/or funny mixes in case get unnoticed.) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2021-07-08 8:34 ` Hans Hagen @ 2021-07-08 13:38 ` Marco Patzer 2021-07-08 23:07 ` Hans Hagen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread From: Marco Patzer @ 2021-07-08 13:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 10:34:32 +0200 Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Now, to the issue of names like 10.11.12.13 ... here .13 is the > suffix, like it or not, so in principle we then get > > 10.11.12.log > 10.11.12.tuc > 10.11.12.pdf It's not that I use files without (.tex, .mkiv, ...) suffixes, but your 10.11.12.13 example is processed by MkIV without problems: 10.11.12.pdf 10.11.12.tua 10.11.12.log LMTX, however doesn't like it: 10.11.pdf 10.11.tua 10.log > if not then indeed there is some issue. According to my tests LMTX doesn't work like you describe it should. > Now, although it's quite some > work, one can think of seeing .13 as part of the filename, in which > case the lookupe becomes > > 10.11.12.13.tex Just to make it clear: I don't use files without .tex/.mkvi/etc. suffix. So I don't expect 10.11.12.13 to work, but 10.11.12.tex should in fact work as far as I understand. Marco ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2021-07-08 13:38 ` Marco Patzer @ 2021-07-08 23:07 ` Hans Hagen 0 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 2021-07-08 23:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users, Marco Patzer On 7/8/2021 3:38 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 10:34:32 +0200 > Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> Now, to the issue of names like 10.11.12.13 ... here .13 is the >> suffix, like it or not, so in principle we then get >> >> 10.11.12.log >> 10.11.12.tuc >> 10.11.12.pdf > > It's not that I use files without (.tex, .mkiv, ...) suffixes, but > your 10.11.12.13 example is processed by MkIV without problems: > > 10.11.12.pdf > 10.11.12.tua > 10.11.12.log actually that's also not ok as it should be a .tuc file > LMTX, however doesn't like it: > > 10.11.pdf > 10.11.tua > 10.log > > >> if not then indeed there is some issue. > > According to my tests LMTX doesn't work like you describe it should. i'll check it (in retrospect tex could better have enforced a suffix and not fallback on .tex but i suppose the usage scenarios were hard to foresee let alone the restart-the-program-time-penalty when you forgot to add .tex) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2021-07-07 18:25 ` Alan Braslau 2021-07-07 19:57 ` Ulrike Fischer 2021-07-07 20:13 ` Marco Patzer @ 2021-07-08 9:01 ` Hans Hagen 2 siblings, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Hans Hagen @ 2021-07-08 9:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users, Alan Braslau, T. Kurt Bond, Marco Patzer On 7/7/2021 8:25 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: > Windows, I believe, does not take kindly to filenames containing > multiple dots. windowes is very kind to multiple dots but it (normally) sees the last suffix as an indication of what file is it (other operating system needs some 'open' command while windows works with associations) > Therefore, Hans never uses such filenames and does not expect them, > either, so I am not surprised that this yields unpredictable results. actually, mkiv will append a suffix for converted files, so foo.eps.pdf is made ... works ok > An unfortunate side-effect of dealing with Windows. more an unfortunate side effect of the way users and porograms construct filenames and expect systems that use some heuristic to deal with that to work fine (unless one accepts that foo.tex gets a foo.tex.log and foo.tex.pdf file as result) (inconsistent font and file filenames can even make life even more misserable) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
* Re: LMTX: different output if dots are used in the file name 2020-05-28 15:33 ` Hans Hagen 2020-05-28 15:59 ` Marco Patzer @ 2020-05-28 16:07 ` Marco Patzer 1 sibling, 0 replies; 18+ messages in thread From: Marco Patzer @ 2020-05-28 16:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users On Thu, 28 May 2020 17:33:19 +0200 Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 5/28/2020 2:49 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: > > Hi! > > > > LMTX and MkIV behave differently if dots are used in the file > > name. Example: > > > > printf '%s\n' '\starttext\null\stoptext' > foo.10.tex && context > > foo.10.tex > > > > MkIV: → foo.10.pdf > > LMTX: → foo.pdf > > > > Is this intentional? > > consider it to be so That's unfortunate. 1) The editor workflow with simple suffix replacement .tex → .pdf to open the corresponding PDF file doesn't work any more with lmtx. New logic is needed to find the correct pdf file name. 2) A project (of mine) that uses item numbers as file names (containing dots) compile to the same pdf: MkIV (everything's predictable and fine): 10.10.10.tex → 10.10.10.pdf 10.10.11.tex → 10.10.11.pdf 11.10.11.tex → 11.10.11.pdf LMTX: 10.10.10.tex → 10.10 (not even a PDF suffix) 10.10.11.tex → 10.10 (file 10.10 is over-written) 11.10.11.tex → 11.10 (no suffix) MkIV is way more predictable and consistent in that regard. Marco ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 18+ messages in thread
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