Angus Leeming wrote:
The gurus at comp.text.tex or gmane.comp.tex.miktex are either silent or
they're suggesting I avoid "paths with spaces", so let's assume that
BibTeX can't handle such paths.
One suggestion, from Florian Schmitt on gmane.comp.tex.miktex is to use the
DOS alias name of directories, but that's problematic in its own right.
Another idea, which I think we should persue, is to copy the bibtex
database to the temp directory (mangling its name in the process) and to
use that in the latex file. Since the two files are in the same directory,
we'd use relative paths and things would 'just work'.
People who don't use the temp directory are on their own of course.
Thoughts?
Angus,
Will this have any implications with File->Export->LaTeX? Specifically,
if the user selects a .bib file in a directory other than the one where
the document lives, won't the export (potentially) give him an absolute
path containing spaces?
The other thing is, what happens if the file name itself contains spaces
(e.g., 'my research.bib')? Will you convert spaces to underscores? And
will that occur in the export as well?
-- Paul
