[347] in SIPB bug reports
LaTeX file name problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 7 23:57:44 1989
From: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 19:24:18 EST
To: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Tue, 7 Mar 89 17:40:08 EST <8903072240.AA00375@ANATHEMA.MIT.EDU>
Barry, this isn't a bug; it's (again) a well-documented feature of TeX.
Most systems have default extensions -- I believe Scribe's is .mss, for
instance -- that they will append to a filename. A well-known shortcoming
of TeX is that it doesn't allow you to override this default; but I'd
call it a design flaw rather than a bug. We could "fix" it, but then
we wouldn't have TeX anymore and the standard would go out the window.
As to your comment about chapter.1, chapter.2, etc --- Usually, what comes
after the dot is a type field. chapter-1.tex or chapter1.tex is (not
are :-) a better filename. The problem here (and I've done this myself)
is that the style of filenames seems to be changing. But I wouldn't
call it wrong or even inconsistant: The \jobname consists of all the
alphanumeric characters up to the first period. The output files are
then appropriately named. If there is no period in the entered filename,
".tex" is assumed.
- Rhu
(Hope this didn't come off as too sanctimonious. :-)
