[tex-live] comma versus colon in texmf.cnf

[Akira Kakuto]

> Comma is not deprecated as a brace element separator {foo,bar} as far as
> I'm concerned.
> 
> It appears that only : can be used as a brace element separator on Unix:
>   $ kpsewhich --expand-braces='a{b;c}'
>   ab;c
> shows no expansion, while
>   $ kpsewhich --expand-braces='a{b:c}'
>   ab:ac
> is correctly expanded.  That seems like a deficiency (patches welcome,
> I'm not going to work on it), because ...

[FYI]
On Windows,
kpsewhich --expand-braces "a{b:c}"
ab:c
(Not expanded.
 This is natural since ':' is used after a drive letter on Windows.)

kpsewhich --expand-braces "a{b;c}"
ab;ac

kpsewhich --expand-braces "a{b,c}"
ab;ac

Comma can be commonly used as a brace element separator
on Unix and Windows.

-- 
Akira Kakuto