On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:34:58PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > What I do not see is what is the practical use of removing the > extension on output... We should output without extension when there > is no extension in the graphics file name (and use the same rules to > search as latex/pdflatex), but not remove them. > > Does anybody know why this is supposed to be a good idea?
Just guessing: When you hand over a .tex to a colleague it is pretty inconvenient to have any explicit extension in the file as this would mean he is either restricted to a single output (.ps or .pdf) or have to remove the extensions himself... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
