The problem in TeX Live has just been fixed. Now it will expand short
names: https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-November/049706.html
Therefore please feel free to ignore my original request. Thank you!
Regards,
Yihui
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On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 8:28 AM Tomas Kalibera
On 10/31/23 10:05, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 31/10/2023 4:32 a.m., Tomas Kalibera wrote:
On 10/30/23 19:07, Yihui Xie wrote:
Sure. I'm not sure if it's possible to make it easier to reproduce,
but for now the example would require installing TinyTeX (via
tinytex::install_tinytex(), which can
Okay, thanks everyone for the clear explanations! Now I understand it
much better.
Before I wrote to r-devel, I guessed it was probably a problem on TeX
Live's side rather than R, therefore I also reported it to them and
I'm still waiting for a response. If they cannot fix it, and R's
system()
On 10/30/23 21:36, Yihui Xie wrote:
> I have read about "system() not using a shell on Windows" on the help
> page many times before but never understood what it means technically.
> Please forgive my ignorance. I still do not understand it, but thanks
> a lot for the explanation anyway!
As the
On 31/10/2023 4:32 a.m., Tomas Kalibera wrote:
On 10/30/23 19:07, Yihui Xie wrote:
Sure. I'm not sure if it's possible to make it easier to reproduce,
but for now the example would require installing TinyTeX (via
tinytex::install_tinytex(), which can be later uninstalled cleanly via
On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:36:50 -0500
Yihui Xie wrote:
> I have read about "system() not using a shell on Windows" on the help
> page many times before but never understood what it means technically.
This means resolving the path to the executable, then calling
CreateProcess() to launch that
On 10/30/23 19:07, Yihui Xie wrote:
> Sure. I'm not sure if it's possible to make it easier to reproduce,
> but for now the example would require installing TinyTeX (via
> tinytex::install_tinytex(), which can be later uninstalled cleanly via
> tinytex::uninstall_tinytex() after you finish
I have read about "system() not using a shell on Windows" on the help
page many times before but never understood what it means technically.
Please forgive my ignorance. I still do not understand it, but thanks
a lot for the explanation anyway! I'm just curious if the full path
would work in
On 30/10/2023 16:18, Yihui Xie wrote:
Hi,
It may have been so for 20+ years but I just discovered today that system()
would always try to use the short path of a command on Windows:
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/635a67/src/gnuwin32/run.c#L141 If
that's true, I wonder if it could provide
Sure. I'm not sure if it's possible to make it easier to reproduce, but for
now the example would require installing TinyTeX (via
tinytex::install_tinytex(), which can be later uninstalled cleanly via
tinytex::uninstall_tinytex() after you finish the investigation). Then run:
On 10/30/23 17:18, Yihui Xie wrote:
Hi,
It may have been so for 20+ years but I just discovered today that system()
would always try to use the short path of a command on Windows:
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/635a67/src/gnuwin32/run.c#L141 If
that's true, I wonder if it could provide
Hi,
It may have been so for 20+ years but I just discovered today that system()
would always try to use the short path of a command on Windows:
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/635a67/src/gnuwin32/run.c#L141 If
that's true, I wonder if it could provide an option to disable this
behavior,
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