On 28-5-2011 10:08, Philipp Gesang wrote:

Hi all,

the mkiv definition of \openoutputfile adds undesired braces to filenames like “{out}.testfile2” and “{out.testfile3}”.

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\newwrite \testme %\openout \testme \jobname.testfile %%% works \openoutputfile \testme \jobname.testfile2

here #1 = \jobname so you get what you ask for

\openoutputfile \testme {\jobname.testfile3}

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irrelevant

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mkii is fine. (Although I prefer plain \openout.)

it's a macro and not a syntactically equivalent to \open* so indeed you need to use braces even if you use \openin you need to be careful as then the space or \relax is a delimited, so you can get side effects when used as: \def\MyOpenIn{\openin\MyIn\jobname} \MyOpenIn bla 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------