Sivan Toledo wrote: > Ruurd, > > Since TeX cannot cope with file names with spaces in them, I tried to > give the path to my files as c:\docume~1\stoledo\desktop instead of > c:\Documents and Settings. This was supposed to work, but it didn't. > After a while I figured that it is because lyx inserts a [EMAIL PROTECTED] > command before the \documentstyle, to tell tex where to look for files. > Since ~ is a special char, this creates a problem. > > I was able to fix this manually in the files that lyx produces to run > latex by using the following construct, instead of the original header: > > \bgroup > \makeatletter > \catcode`\~=11 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/docume~1/stoledo/desktop/Projects//}} > \makeatother > \egroup > > The \bgroup..\egroup are there to ensure that the \catcode command is > local, but the definition is \global so it holds after the group ends. > This seems to fix the problem. I think that it's worth putting this > patch into the win32 lyx sources.
I am not sure, but it seems that setting [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not needed at all. It might be a better fix to remove the [EMAIL PROTECTED] setting (not only for win32, but every platform). Georg
