On Tuesday, November 07, 2006 5:17 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > I oppose against special treatment of .sty files. > > > > The general rule should be > > > > notangle file.ext.pamphlet > file.ext > > noweave file.ext.pamphlet > file.ext.pamphlet.tex > > > > remove ".pamphlet" and add ".tex". That rule seems to be > > a bit simpler than having to explain why .sty files must > > be treated separately. > >
I don't think what Waldek proposes amounts to "separate treatment". He is just observing that the existing name for the pamphlet file conflicts with the behaviour of latex. > > Well, .sty files _are_ special (normal files do not contain > "self references"). I think Waldek is right. This name for the pamphlet file is unusal. The only convention that we have is really just: noweave filename.pamphlet > filename.tex latex filename.tex and I think that is very natural because noweave always applies to the entire file. Normally, the filename part does not contain any dot. > And if you think about rule: > > notangle file.ext.pamphlet > file.ext notangle is completely different because it can either apply to the whole file or to just one chunk of the file (-R option). If we have a convention for notangle, then I think it should be like this: notangle filename.pamphlet -R 'file.ext' > file.ext > > this _is_ alredy broken by many files (in 'src/hyper') when we > have > > file.pamphlet -> file.c > Is there a case like this? Maybe it should be written: notangle file.pamphlet -R 'file.c' > file.c With <<file.c>>= defined appropriately. > or > > /-> file.h > file.pamphlet -| > \-> file.c > In this case I think it is really notangle file.pamphlet -R 'file.h' > file.h notangle file.pamphlet -R 'file.c' > file.c Right? > I agree that you proposal is logical, but it is also clumsy: > .pamphlet extension is already pretty long and sticking on it > another extension will give very long files names. > I think the only convincing reason that Ralf gave for his convention for noweave was interaction with point-and-click in dvi. But this could be achieved through a different patch to srcltx. No? Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
