[tex-live] case sensitivity

[Zdenek Wagner]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> > I guess this is inadvertent, as they have identical contents; but it
> > makes it impossible to check out a working copy to a case-insensitive
> > volume. So could we please remove one of the [Uu]nash.fd files?
> >
> > There is also a file Uxnsh.fd in the same directory, but this has no
> > lowercase counterpart. For comparison, there is also uheb.fd, which
> > is also related to font encoding "U" but has an all-lowercase name.
> >
> > My suggestion would be to remove "Unash.fd", and also rename
> > "Uxnsh.fd" to "uxnsh.fd" for consistency; I notice that within
> > Unash.fd, for example, it says \ProvidesFile{unash.fd} with the
> > lowercase form.
>
> your recommendation would be correct according to the thinking that
> the latex project has: lowercase files are preferred, but nfss always
> checks for the uppercase version.
>
> that \ProvidesFile could cause tedious warning messages.
>
Naming convention has changed a couple of years ago due to problems with
mixed case names on some platforms. The names of .fd files consists of
encoding and the font family and encoding is now in lowercase. Of course,
\ProvidesFile must also contain the name in lowercase.

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