From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \typefile with filenames with $ characters in their name
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:49:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe8d59da0906281349n58c477d7o843e83301230fbce@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83DA7F88-C6A2-4726-83C9-8A3433413C15@rna.nl>
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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda@rna.nl> wrote:
> On 28 Jun 2009, at 19:17, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>
> Am 2009-06-26 um 19:33 schrieb Gerben Wierda:
>>
>> \typefile balks on filenames with $ characters in their names. Anything I
>>> can do about that?
>>>
>>
>> Rename the file. It's an error if characters like that appear in a file
>> name.
>>
>
> You could even rename it using Lua from within your TeX code.
>>
>
> In my book, moving to a beta product or not accepting what is a vaild
> filename according to the filesystem is a limitation of the program. Not
> ConTeXt or TeX defines what a valid filename is, the OS decides.
>
TeX (and ConTeXt) try hard to be OS independant , so I find natural some
"limitations"
>
> I do not decide what the names of these files are, someone else produces
> them, and my work flow should be able to handle all valid filenames.
>
Well, my experience is that leave to the users this prerogative is not
safe.
I always transform a filename in safe filename, process it, and eventually
transform back the name .
--
luigi
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-26 17:33 Gerben Wierda
2009-06-26 20:40 ` Hans Hagen
2009-06-26 23:44 ` Gerben Wierda
2009-06-28 17:17 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2009-06-28 18:59 ` Gerben Wierda
2009-06-28 20:20 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-06-28 20:49 ` luigi scarso [this message]
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