On Monday 18 February 2002 9:19 am, Herbert Voss wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > On Saturday 16 February 2002 5:31 pm, Herbert Voss wrote: > > > I have no problem with > > > > > > \converter "user" "eps" "xmgrace -hardcopy -hdevice EPS $$i" "" > > > > > > Herbert > > > > Sure, Herbert, but it is still rather ugly, specifying user1, user2 etc. If > > Rob wants to define an agr format, then let's let him. I think that this > > would do it: > > [...] > > this should be much more easier: > > instead of "user", I will return the file-extension, if present. > Only when we can not detect a file type from the contents and > have no extension than I return "user"
Also, if you can't determine the format name from either getFORMATfromContents or from the list of currently available formats and their extensions, then you're screwed anyway. Best to just return string() and enable the rest of the code to say "No format defined!" Angus
