On 7/27/2014 1:24 PM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
Hello,
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:01:15 +0200, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
There is a new experimental feature (one of the side effects of
discussions with Alan about bibliographies and using distributed files
in a project structure).
Say that you have this:
test1.tex : uses \component one/test2
one/test2.tex : uses \component two/test3
etc. There can be resources under one/two that test3 needs and one way
out is to add this path to the used paths. Doing that automatically can
result in side effects when multiple resources with the same name are
used.
However, we now have a concept of the local job path, so when test2 is
read the jobfile: prefix will use path one, and when reading test3, that
prefix will trigger one/two usage.
very nice and handy feature, thanks for that.
Just a remark -
- there was a similar prefix "toppath:" introduced some time ago.
And - IIUC - "jobfile" refers to a dir rather than to a file, so
wouldn't be better to call the prefix "jobdir:" or "jobpath:"?
The difference is that toppath: works on the input stack and jobfile: on
the accumulated subpaths (normally in a job structure) ... in fact, both
could work out the same but the top of the inputstack could be different
... it's all a matter of experiencing, so
\usepath[jobfile:]
\setupexternalfigures[directory=jobfile:]
\usepath[toppath:]
\setupexternalfigures[directory=toppath:]
could have the best of both worlds.
toppath == dir of top of inputstack
jobfile == dir of current jobfile
maybe jobpath is indeed better (i'll change it and keep the old one for
a while)
For this to work, one has to say:
\usepath[jobfile:]
\setupexternalfigures[directory=jobfile:]
To what extent this all works out well is to be tested.
Hans
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