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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-docotherdir.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-docotherdir.html index c929acdda0f..ef9c4ba7155 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-docotherdir.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-docotherdir.html @@ -5,31 +5,31 @@ <p>A common way of constructing a large document is to break it into a set of files (for example, one per chapter) and to keep everything related to each of these subsidiary files in a subdirectory. -<p>Unfortunately, TeX doesn't have a changeable "current directory", +<p>Unfortunately, TeX doesn’t have a changeable “current directory”, so that all files you refer to have to be specified relative to the same directory as the main file. Most people find this counter-intuitive. -<p>It may be appropriate to use the "path extension" technique +<p>It may be appropriate to use the “path extension” technique <a href="FAQ-tempinst.html">used in temporary installations</a> to deal with this problem. However, if there several files with the same name in your document, such as <i>chapter1/fig1.eps</i> and -<i>chapter2/fig1.eps</i>, you're not giving TeX any hint as to -which you're referring to when in the main chapter file you say +<i>chapter2/fig1.eps</i>, you’re not giving TeX any hint as to +which you’re referring to when in the main chapter file you say <code>\</code><code>input{sect1}</code>; while this is readily soluble in the case of -human-prepared files (just don't name them all the same), +human-prepared files (just don’t name them all the same), automatically produced files have a way of having repetitious names, and changing <em>them</em> is a procedure prone to error. <p>The <i>import</i> package comes to your help here: it defines an <code>\</code><code>import</code> command that accepts a full path name and the name of a -file in that directory, and arranges things to "work properly". +file in that directory, and arranges things to “work properly”. So, for example, if <i>/home/friend/results.tex</i> contains <blockquote> <pre> Graph: \includegraphics{picture} \input{explanation} </pre> -</blockquote> +</blockquote><p> then <code>\</code><code>import{/home/friend/}{results}</code> will include both graph and explanation as one might hope. A <code>\</code><code>subimport</code> command does the same sort of thing for a subdirectory (a relative path rather @@ -43,15 +43,15 @@ each of which takes directory and file arguments, e.g.: <pre> \cfpart[pt 1]{Part One}{part1}{part} </pre> -</blockquote> -which command will issue a 'normal' command +</blockquote><p> +which command will issue a ‘normal’ command <code>\</code><code>part[pt 1]{Part One}</code> and then input the file <i>part1/part.tex</i>, remembering that <i>part1/</i> is now the -"current folder". There are also commands of the form +“current folder”. There are also commands of the form <code>\</code><code>cfpartstar</code> (which corresponds to a <code>\</code><code>part*</code> command). -<p>Once you're "in" a <i>chapterfolder</i>-included document, you -may use <code>\</code><code>cfinput</code> to input something relative to the "current -folder", or you may use <code>\</code><code>input</code>, using <code>\</code><code>cfcurrentfolder</code> to +<p>Once you’re “in” a <i>chapterfolder</i>-included document, you +may use <code>\</code><code>cfinput</code> to input something relative to the “current +folder”, or you may use <code>\</code><code>input</code>, using <code>\</code><code>cfcurrentfolder</code> to provide a path to the file. (There are also <code>\</code><code>cfcurrentfolderfigure</code> for a <i>figure/</i> subdirectory and <code>\</code><code>cfcurrentfolderlistings</code> for a <i>listings/</i> subdirectory.) |