>>>>> "Michael" == Michael  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Michael> Hi LyX fails to protect a tilde (~) in the input path when
Michael> supplied to LaTeX:

Michael> Eg \def\input@path{{/home/username/age~5/}} or (under Cygwin)
Michael> \def\input@path{{C:/Progra~1/Cygwin/tmp/}} .

Michael> If each occurrence of the tilde were preceeded by "\string",
Michael> this problem would be solved and LaTeX would accept the path
Michael> correctly: \def\input@path{{/home/username/age\string~5/}}

Did you actually test that? I seem to remember that, at least for
spaces in names there is no clean solution.

Appended is an (untested) patch which does what you request. Of course
there will be other characters for which this is needed.

JMarc

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