>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Angus> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jean-Marc, are you happy for me to
Angus> commit this patch?
>>  I would probably have moved max_length and its comment inside
>> mangled_filename, but the patch is fine.

Angus> Hmmmm. But what would the interface to mangled_filename be? (I
Angus> ask because we need something similar for LyX 1.4.x, so we may
Angus> as well get this right now.)

Angus> The allowable length of "mangled_file_name" below is dependent
Angus> on the (unmangled) path to the directory that is to contain
Angus> this file:

Can you pass this directory to the function too?

Or you can fix the file name to 50 characters, which "should be enough
for everybody" as someone said once.

JMarc

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