[OS X TeX] input versus include in Texshop

[Maarten Sneep]

On 5 jan 2005, at 13:11, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Are you sure? I looked for the string "include" in pdfsync.sty 
> (version 0.6 from January 2004) and only found it in the redefinition 
> of \InputIfFileExists:
>
>     % patching LaTeX \InputIfFileExists for \include and \input
>     \let\PDFSYNC at InputIfFileExists\InputIfFileExists%
>     \long\def \InputIfFileExists##1##2##3{%
> 	  \immediate\write\PDFPOS{(##1}%
>       \PDFSYNC at InputIfFileExists{##1}{##2}{##3}%
>       \immediate\write\PDFPOS{)}}%
>
> How would it affect a user's redefinition of \include? There may be 
> issues regarding the order in which things are done (redefining 
> \include then calling pdfsync.sty, or the other way round), of course.

Ooops. I thought the LaTeXs \input command was a small redefinition of 
TeXs \input command, but apparently the \input and \include commands 
are both based on \InputIfFileExists (in order to gracefully handle 
missing files). And sure enough, in the file ltfiles.dtx, that 
reasoning is properly documented. So actually the code  shown above 
should fix both \input and \include.

Queation remains why \input{} didn't work for the original poster.

Maarten

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