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teTeX/dvips


On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Charles Hyder wrote:

Turns out, the include path for dvips's map files is
/usr/shar/texmf/fonts/map// (!) Here, the "//" means "search all
subdirectories", of course.

I have to admit ignorance here of this seeming common knowledge. How does adding a second slash to the end of a path indicate such a search, let alone assuming it to be common 'of course' knowledge


Where is this documented, as it severely 'breaks expectation' that a path specification is permitted to have 'extra' adjacent path-separators. An additional expectation is that a directory specification may be 'normalized' at any time, and is NOT overloaded with some 'secret' "search sub-paths" option

man 1 dirname
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/normalizing-path-names-bash

-- Russ herrold

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