[tex-live] behaviour of kpsewhich on case-insensitive mac system

George N. White III gnwiii at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 16:54:08 CEST 2017


On 20 September 2017 at 04:26, Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp> wrote:

> It would be wrong to "randomly" return any case-insensitive match
>>
>
> I have changed to return actual file names on Windows,
> probably with a little loss of performance.
>

I think this will be useful, but it doesn't fully address the problem of
documents shared between Windows and linux users where the file
last edited by the Windows user references "example-image-A.pdf".
It helps only in the sense that linux user asks Windows user where
to find "example-image-A.pdf".  Windows user consults
the new kpeswhich and discovers: ".../tex/latex/mwe/example-image-a.pdf".




> In TeX Live 2018, users will obtain:
>
> C:\Users\Philip.Taylor>kpsewhich PLAIN.TEX
> c:/TeX/Live/2018/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/plain.tex
>
> C:\Users\Philip.Taylor>kpsewhich PLAIN.TeX
> c:/TeX/Live/2018/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/plain.tex
>
> C:\Users\Philip.Taylor>kpsewhich Plain.TeX
> c:/TeX/Live/2018/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/plain.tex
>
> C:\Users\Philip.Taylor>kpsewhich plain.TeX
> c:/TeX/Live/2018/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/plain.tex
>
> C:\Users\Philip.Taylor>kpsewhich ieeetran.cls
> c:/TeX/Live/2018/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ieeetran/IEEEtran.cls
>
> Thanks,
> Akira
>
>


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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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