Georg Baum wrote:
>> Georg, I have been able to try out your filename-test.tex only on
>> Windows. The other boxes available to me don't have a sufficiently
>> modern Web2C. However, these aren't legal file names on Windows:
>>
>> a:colon.eps a?dquote.eps a?quest.eps
>>
>> Particularly a?dquote.eps will affect the regex that is needed to clean
>> up the .dvi file so that dvips et al. can handle it.
>
> I guess you meant a"dquote.eps?
Yes I did.
>> Could you post your .dvi file so that I can see what needs to be done?
> Of course, but you'll need to wait until this evening
Fine. Thanks.
I managed to generate a dvi file here (FC3, TeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159) that
references a"dquote.eps. The entry in the dvi file translated to
human-readable dtl format is:
...PSfile="a"dquote.eps" llx=...
which is absolutely horrible because quoted entries (can't generate them
here, but did so with MikTeX on Windows) have the form
...PSfile=""a space.eps"" llx=...
...PSfile=""a space".eps" llx=...
which should both be cleaned to
...PSfile="a space.eps" llx=...
for yap and dvips to handle them.
I can't see how we can handle both file names with quotes and quoted names
at the same time, so I suggest that we should just state that a"dquote.eps
is an illegal file name.
Nonetheless, it would be interesting to see how my dvi files compare to
yours.
--
Angus
