[texhax] undertilde and MiKTeX

Rolf Turner r.turner at auckland.ac.nz
Fri Oct 27 23:05:51 CEST 2017


The journal of which I am Technical Editor provides a document class 
file which implements the style conventions that papers published in the
journal must meet.

This document class makes use of the "\undertilde" command.  Apparently 
there are licensing issues with the undertilde package, and for this 
reason (I think) my installation of texlive has no undertilde.sty file,
but rather a file undertilde.tex.  Explicitly:

  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/genmisc/undertilde.tex

For *that* reason the document class file for the journal uses

     \input{undertilde}

rather than

     \usepackage{undertilde}

An author contacted me just now saying that he is getting an error

     > File `undertilde.tex' not found. \input{undertilde}

This author is using TeXstudio which is a front end for MiKTeX.

I have difficulty investigating this problem, since I
*don't do Windoze* !!!  However some Googling indicates that MiKTeX 
should indeed have access to undertilde.

The curly is that one Google hit appears to indicate that MiKTeX 
possesses undertilde.sty and another that it possesses undertilde.tex.
These files would appear to live in

    ...\texmf\tex\generic\genmisc

(a) Can someone who uses Windoze/MiKTeX please confirm whether either or 
both of the files undertilde.sty and undertilde.tex are present?  Where 
they should be?

(b) It strikes me that it is possible that some releases of MiKTeX have
undertilde.sty and some (older ones perhaps?) have undertilde.tex.

If this is indeed the case I would like to be able to construct a 
conditional input something along the lines of:

   if(the file undertilde.sty is found) {
       \usepackage{undertilde}
   } else if(the file undertilde.tex is found) {
       \input{undertilde}
   } else {
       Bail out with a message "undertilde not available"
   }

Can some clever person instruct me (monosyllabically; I'm a Bear of Very 
Little Brain) as to how to construct such a conditional?

Eternally grateful.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

-- 
Technical Editor ANZJS
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276


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