On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 23:26:21 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

On 2/8/2019 10:22 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:

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What is a bad name for context? Does it have any consequences if badly named files are used? Just being curious. Bad names are names that can result i a miss when looked up on a case sensitive system. When you have a workflow where images come from e.g. graphic designers don't be surprised to get names with inconsistent casing, one of more spaces in a row, multiple suffixes (or wrong ones), etc etc ... now when images are referred to e.g. from xml files that also come from someplace it can get pretty hard to find where something goes miss. So, here we always normalize (az09-).

In a tex tree files with the same name can lead to wrong lookups depending on the order of configured paths. There context alway has had case insensitive lookups.

Because people use brain-dead file systems we get to use brain-dead file names, case-insensitive, etc., etc. This can be a bit frustrating for those used to working with real file systems and real (arbitrary) file names, but it gives better results for the least common denominator, i.e. Windows... :-( Alan

On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 23:26:21 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

On 2/8/2019 10:22 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:

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What is a bad name for context? Does it have any consequences if badly named files are used? Just being curious. Bad names are names that can result i a miss when looked up on a case sensitive system. When you have a workflow where images come from e.g. graphic designers don't be surprised to get names with inconsistent casing, one of more spaces in a row, multiple suffixes (or wrong ones)

That's so true. I'm not surprised about anything when dealing with people. People are really bad at being precise and consistent. You can wish they were, but they just aren't.

... now when images are referred to e.g. from xml files that also come from someplace it can get pretty hard to find where something goes miss. So, here we always normalize (az09-).

So every file name containing something else than lowercase, digits and a dash is “bad” (and dots obviously)? Doesn't seem to be true: a.1.png %% bad name Names are read from a database in this case, in case you're wondering. Marco