[tex-live] behaviour of kpsewhich on case-insensitive mac system

Enrico Gregorio enrico.gregorio at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 01:01:46 CEST 2017


> On 20 Sep 2017, at 00:45 , Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The problem with case sensitivity is as follows:
> 
> A user on a case insensitive file system has files MAIN.TEX and CHAPTER1.TEX. The MAIN.TEX contains the following line:
> 
> \input chapter1

I should add something I see rather frequently;

    \usepackage[Francais]{babel}

which is accepted on Windows, but of course breaks on case sensitive systems. Or

    \documentclass[ieeetran}

and

    \bibliographystyle{ieeetran}

where it should be IEEEtran in order to be compatible across systems.

I understand that TeX Live/Windows likes/needs to be compatible with MiKTeX; 
were it for me, I’d not allow it.

Ciao
Enrico


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