Re: left.tex won't include left.mp

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> At 01:55 PM 2/2/01 -0800, David Arnold wrote:
> >Hans,
> >
> >The file left.tex uses a picture of the Riemann sum.  Strangely enough, if 
> >the external figure is named left.1, it is not included in the pdf 
> >file.  But, if we rename the figure myleft.1 it is included in the pdf file.
> 
> You got me for a moment .... but: figure with the same name as jobname are
> not handled; this is because it can introduce loops [think of incluidng
> left.pdf into left.tex that itself becomes an left.pdf] Here we always give
> figs a nice prefix, like f-left so that we can also 'dir' them comfortable. 
> 
> So, it's a feature -) 

Wow, I didn't know that -- or if I did, I forgot it.  I guess context
documentation should be sure to impress upon the user that they should
avoid having figures with the same base name as their document.

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