Re: [NTG-context] bug in \externalfigure

On 8/1/2013 4:43 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:01:27 +0200 luigi scarso wrote:

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On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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I think that the advice of omitting the file extension given in most LaTeX introductions is more trouble than it is worth in ConTeXt. Omitting file extensions is important if you are generating both dvi and pdf outputs. In ConTeXt, one never uses the DVI output, so I think that one should ALWAYS specify the file extension. That removes a lot of headaches with the wrong file being sourced.

+1.

-1

One might have png, jpeg, pdf, eps and other figure files. The choice of which will be used depends eventually on where the file is to be found... (and setupexternalfigures). This is a *feature*. It has nothing to do with LaTeX.

Of course, one can always specify an extension explicitly if one so wishes...

Furthermore, the file extension is simply a convenient label which makes no difference whatsoever on any serious system. (but not so on more primitive operating systems. ;)

actually it's not that primitive as it helps to identify what we're dealing with (e.g. in the source and backend use different code paths for identifying the dimensions, conversion and inclusion) Hans -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------