Hi Karl,
On Mo, 16 Mar 2009, Karl Berry wrote:
Hmm, but doesn't that mean that if the .texi file now contains
foo~bar
then it will come out as
foo~bar
in the dvi file?
It does mean that, and that's the way it's always been, and the way it
should be,
On Mo, 16 Mär 2009, Karl Berry wrote:
Hmm, but doesn't that mean that if the .texi file now contains
foo~bar
then it will come out as
foo~bar
in the dvi file?
It does mean that, and that's the way it's always been, and the way it
should be, ~ being a
On So, 15 Mär 2009, Karl Berry wrote:
I installed the patch below (modulo documentation, etc.) to support tildes.
There's an undocumented -~ option to avoid all this madness in case it's
totally broken. Hope none of these literal tildes mess anything up.
Hmm, but doesn't that mean that if
Hmm, but doesn't that mean that if the .texi file now contains
foo~bar
then it will come out as
foo~bar
in the dvi file?
It does mean that, and that's the way it's always been, and the way it
should be, ~ being a normal character in Texinfo ... am I missing
calling texi2dvi /path/with~tilde/in/the/path.texi breaks
I installed the patch below (modulo documentation, etc.) to support tildes.
There's an undocumented -~ option to avoid all this madness in case it's
totally broken. Hope none of these literal tildes mess anything up.
More special
On Fr, 13 Mär 2009, Karl Berry wrote:
Can one of you imagine any way to fix that problem?
I can imagine ways, like running tex differently:
tex '\catcode126=12 \input foo~bar/baz.texi'
Yes, I thought about that, too, but it is not really a good idea in
general, because baz.texi might
Hi Karl, hi all,
there is another problem with ~ in file names. It seems that calling
texi2dvi /path/with~tilde/in/the/path.texi
breaks because of \catcode. texi2dvi tells tex to load that file name as
is, which breaks of course due to ~ being active.
Can one of you imagine any way to
Can one of you imagine any way to fix that problem?
I can imagine ways, like running tex differently:
tex '\catcode126=12 \input foo~bar/baz.texi'
It will take some time to figure out if it can really work.
Patches welcome.
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