Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Frank! > > On Don, 11 Jan 2007, Frank Küster wrote: >> In TeXlive, there is no alias file at all. Is there a reason for that - >> I think the idea is quite nice. > > No idea. What programs do support these aliases? All of the TL suite? > Would be surprising ...
Of course, it's a kpathsea feature: ,---- kpathsea.info | 3.4 Filename database (`ls-R') | ============================== | | [...] | A second database file `aliases' allows you to give additional names | to the files listed in `ls-R'. This can be helpful to adapt to "8.3" | filename conventions in source files. | | The `ls-R' and `aliases' features are implemented in the source file | `kpathsea/db.c'. `---- I'll ask on the TeX Live list. I think someone once said "aliases are a bad idea", but I do not agree... Regards, Frank P.S. as for the mail thing, I hoped you would do it because you understand a bit what's going on on the Launchpad side. I only can say "they want to send us a confirmation e-mail". But that is probably enough, I'll try to contact the Debian listmasters. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
