Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Angus> Can you explain to me what is meant to happen to the \include
> Angus> and \input entries in the presence of spaces? At the moement,
> Angus> without applying the patch, LyX 1.3.x creates the following
> Angus> LaTeX file from trial.lyx.
>
> Angus> I know that changing ~ to \string~ will fix this particular
> Angus> file, but what happens if the temp dir and the sub~dir each
> Angus> contain spaces? Is it sufficient to wrap these elements in
> Angus> inverted commas?
>
> It should, but I am not sure. Actually, the "" feature is done at low
> level, and I fear it will play badly with some packages. That's why I
> avoided this.
>
> The documentation is here:
> http://www.tug.org/texinfohtml/web2c.html#_005cinput-filenames
Ok. Thanks.
> Angus> [EMAIL PROTECTED]"/tmp dir//"}} \include{"sub [EMAIL PROTECTED]"} foo
> Angus> \input{"sub dir/input.tex"}
>
> The patch I did at the time purposefully avoided to handle the case of
> file names with spaces in them. I decided this was not a territory I
> was willing to explore. I did the minimal thing, which is ``allow to
> typeset a file which is in a directory with spaces in its name''.
This is the code in buffer.C that generates the [EMAIL PROTECTED] entry?
Note that it doesn't handle files that are input from a sub-directory of
the main buffer. Ie,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
\include{sub [EMAIL PROTECTED]
will fail also.
--
Angus
