From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \ReadFile in MkII vs MkIV
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:58:35 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1010171340530.7119@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0511A24C-C978-4DE9-804D-1995071C957E@gmail.com>
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 17.10.2010 um 19:21 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>
>> It works, but does not fit my need. I wanted to add an option to the filter module to allow the user to say:
>>
>> \setupexternalfilters[directory=$TEMP]
>>
>> and have all the tmp files created in $TEMP. Having to set this as a relative path will be really ugly.
>>
>> I am just looking for macro that takes the filename as a (brace delimited) parameter and typesets it. I can define one on my own; but I thought that \ReadFile is already supposed to do that.
>>
>> It is straight forward to "fix" \ReadFile so that absolute paths work:
>>
>> \unexpanded\def\readfile #1{\doreadfile{any} \empty{#1}}
>> \unexpanded\def\ReadFile #1{\doreadfile{any} \empty{#1}\donothing\donothing}
>>
>> I just wondering if the current behavior is a design decision or an oversight.
>
> What i get from the comments in the source is that \readfile looks for the requested file
> in the current directory, the parent directories and the tex directory and \ReadFile is
> a alternative form for \readfile without the second and third argument.
Then the MkII implementation is wrong because it allows absolute paths.
> You can define your own command \ReadFilter which is based in \readsetfile or \readfixfile.
I wanted something that will work consistently in MkII and MkIV. I can do:
\doifmodeelse{\s!mkii}
{\let\ReadFilter\ReadFile}
{\def\ReadFilter#1{\doreadfile{any}\empty{#1}\donothing\donothing}}
but, I wanted to avoid such things if possible :-/
(BTW, why is system mode *mkii not set in MkII?)
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-17 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-16 21:09 Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 12:50 ` luigi scarso
2010-10-17 17:21 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 17:27 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 17:28 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-10-17 17:58 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2010-10-17 18:06 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-10-17 18:54 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 20:17 ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-17 21:02 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 22:23 ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-17 20:15 ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-17 20:50 ` Aditya Mahajan
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