[tex-live] miniltx.tex is broken

David Carlisle david at dcarlisle.demon.co.uk
Thu Jan 7 13:48:42 CET 2010


Orm Finnendahl wrote:

Thanks for this, I'll  pass it on to the person who made the last change,

David

> Hi,
>
>  the file miniltx.tex is broken. It is missing the definition for
> filename at simple (see output below this mail). I found out that the
> suggested fix in this mail:
>
> http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-September/022670.html
>
> has only partly been applied (apparently done on 2010/01/02): The
> second definition in that mail:
>
>   \def\filename at simple#1.#2\\{%
>     \ifx\\#2\\%
>        \let\filename at ext\relax
>     \else
>        \edef\filename at ext{\filename at dot#2\\}%
>     \fi
>     \edef\filename at base{#1}}
>   \def\filename at dot#1.\\{#1}
>
> is missing in miniltx.tex and that makes it impossible to render my
> plain tex documents with \includegraphics from the graphicx package.
>
> Adding these lines to the miniltx.tex file (and replacing the at)
> makes everything work again on my machine.
>
> --
> Orm
>
> PS.: Here is my error log:
>
>
> tex \\nonstopmode\\input test.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>
> (./test.tex (/home/orm/.TeX/graphicx.tex (/home/orm/.TeX/miniltx.tex)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
> (/etc/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def))))
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> \reserved at a ->\filename at simple 
>                                testgraph.\\
> \Ginclude at graphics ...ut at path \filename at parse {#1}
>                                                   \ifx \filename at ext \relax ...
>
> \Gin at ii ...eys {Gin}{#1}\Gin at esetsize \the \toks@ 
>                                                   \endgroup \fi 
> l.2 \includegraphics{testgraph}
>                                
> )
> Runaway argument?
> \ifx \filename at ext \relax \@for \Gin at temp :=\Gin at extensions \do {\ifx \ETC.
> ! File ended while scanning use of \\.
> <inserted text> 
>                 \par 
> <*> \nonstopmode\input test.tex
>                                
> ! Emergency stop.
> <*> \nonstopmode\input test.tex
>                                
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on test.log.
>
>   



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