Am 29.09.2011 um 20:57 schrieb Meer, H. van der:

> I do not understand while \readfile behaves differently from \input with 
> regard to TeX-code processing.
> I have the following code:
> 
> \readfile{metapost-setup} %(file with metapost inclusions)
> \starttext
> \startMPpage
> ..
> \stopMPpage
> \stoptext
> 
> Replace the \readfile by: 
>  \input ../../../metapost-setup %(file with metapost inclusions) 
> works ok.
> But with \readfile seems to be skipped silently, that is without any sign of 
> it in the log. The convenience of \readfile should be, if I understand 
> correctly, that it searches upwards to the root of directory tree. Which 
> makes the series of ../'s unnecessary and allows for easily pushing the 
> tex-files further down when their number grows.
> Can it be explained?

\readfile expects three arguments, replace it with \ReadFile which expects only 
one.

Wolfgang
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