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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-grffilenames.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-grffilenames.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b7f2c80ced2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-grffilenames.html @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label grffilenames</title> +</head><body> +<h3>“Modern” graphics file names</h3> +<p/>TeX was designed in a world where file names were very simple +indeed, typically strictly limited both in character set and length. +In modern systems, such restrictions have largely disappeared, which +leaves TeX rather at odds with its environment. Particular +problems arise with spaces in file names, but things like multiple +period characters can seriously confuse the <i>graphics</i> +package. +<p/>The specification of TeX leaves some leeway for distributions to +adopt file access appropriate to their operating system, but this +hasn’t got us very far. Many modern distributions allow you to +specify a file name as <code>"file name.tex"</code> (for example), which +helps somewhat, but while this allows us to say +<blockquote> +<pre> +\input "foo bar.tex" +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +the analogous usage +<blockquote> +<pre> +\includegraphics{"gappy graphics.eps"} +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +using “ordinary” LaTeX causes confusion in <i>xdvi</i> and +<i>dvips</i>, even though it works at compilation time. Sadly, +even within such quotes, multiple dots give <code>\</code><code>includegraphics</code> +difficulties. Note that +<blockquote> +<pre> +\includegraphics{"gappy graphics.pdf"} +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +works in a similar version of PDFTeX. +<p/>If you’re using the <i>graphics</i> package, the <i>grffile</i> +package will help. The package offers several options, the simplest +of which are <code>multidot</code> (allowing more than one dot in a +file name) and <code>space</code> (allowing space in a file name). The +<code>space</code> option requires that you’re running on a +sufficiently recent version of PDFTeX, in PDF mode — and +even then it won’t work for MetaPost files, which are read as TeX +input, and therefore use the standard input mechanism). +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>grffile.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek.zip">macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/">browse the directory</a>) +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=grffilenames">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=grffilenames</a> +</body> |