On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:37:24AM +0200, Dirk Laurie wrote:
>
> Don Simons skryf:
> > The uploaded file had the wrong line terminations for windows.
>
> How often has that been the problem on this mailing-list!
>
> In the old days, when everybody used FTP, you downloaded files as ASCII
> and they came over perfectly in the local text format. Nowadays everybody
> uses web browsers. Why can't browsers auto-convert text files?
>
> The best option is to keep everything as MSDOS text files but zipped.
> The Windows users are happy, the standard Unix unzip utility _can_
> autoconvert, I don't know about Macintosh, but I'd be surprised if
> Macintosh can't autoconvert MSDOS text.
The browser or archiver would need to recognize that ".tex" is a text
file that needs to be converted. Zipping seems like a drastic remedy,
and you still must remember to use unzip's -a option.
Another way is to convert the files with Perl, which works with both
Unix and Unspeakable:
perl -ape 's/\012/\015\012/' -i "$@"
perl -ape 's/\015\012/\012/' -i "$@"
Is it possible to put a command in the first non-comment line of a TeX
file that tells TeX to ignore CR when not recognized as part of a native
newline? That ought to make users happy.
--Col. George Sicherman
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