<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 1, 2018, at 12:35, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Oct 1, 2018, at 10:21 AM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <<a href="mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu" class="">Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">\usepackage{Bookmacros(2018)/formatstyle} pointing to the macro file inside the Bo<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Howdy,<br class=""><br class="">I wonder if there is a problem with using parentheses in the file name. Try removing them form the directory name.<br class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I get no error from a minimal test case with parentheses in the dirname:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div>\documentclass{article}</div><div>\usepackage{dir(2018)/preamble}</div><div>\begin{document}</div><div>\test</div><div>\end{document}</div><div><br class=""></div><div>and dir(2018)/preamble.sty contains the single line</div><div><br class=""></div><div>\newcommand{\test}{Text from subdir with parentheses}</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I’m a bit surprised that it works.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>—Ettore</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Ettore Aldrovandi</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Department of Mathematics, Florida State University</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">1017 Academic Way * <a href="http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov" class="">http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov</a></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA * * aldrovandi at math dot fsu dot edu</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Osaka" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>