On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> 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.
>
> yes, right, in combination with \ifmode it's  useful

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luigi