This bug has just resurfaced. It was working, for a while, but is now back.

I a, on a fully updated mandriva 2009 system using texlive.

Thanks,
bb

----- Original Message ----
> From: Ben Barrowes <bbarrowes@yahoo.com>
> To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
> Sent: Monday, December 8, 2008 4:41:10 PM
> Subject: texexec ignores file order
>
> exexec --pdfarrange --result=yujo_insurance.pdf yujo_insurance1.pdf
> yujo_insurance2.pdf yujo_insurance3.pdf yujo_insurance4.pdf yujo_insurance5.pdf
> yujo_insurance6.pdf yujo_insurance7.pdf yujo_insurance8.pdf yujo_insurance9.pdf
> yujo_insurance10.pdf yujo_insurance11.pdf yujo_insurance12.pdf
>
>
> After upgrading recently, I found that texexec no longer preserves the order of
> files passed to it. When I concatenate files with texexec, I often have more
> than 10 files I want to pass to texexec names filename1.pdf, filename2.pdf, ...
> filename12.pdf, etc. In the past, the following has worked to concatenate these
> in the correct order:
>
> texexec --pdfarrange --result=filename.pdf `ls -a -v filename*.pdf`
>
> Now, even if I pass filename10.pdf after filename2.pdf on the command line,
> texexec ingores this and puts filename10.pdf before filename2.pdf in the
> resulting concatenated file.
>
> Is there a fix for this, or is there a better way to concatenate pdf files?
>
> bb




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