Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Would it take much work to have LyX pop up a warning message, should the > user be so ill-advised as to export a file with spaces in the .bib path, > alerting the user that he/she will not be able to compile the doc using > LaTeX due to the spaces?
The current version of LyX 1.36pre on the wiki (version 23) should enable you to use such a .bib and to see the references as expected in the resulting .dvi file. It doesn't have a pop up. (Obviously!) However, it's easy to add one and, so long as the thing pops up only once, it's a good idea too. > Not that I'm trying to add work for you, mind you. It's sort of a Law > of Unintended Consequences thing. Those of us who've been using Windows > ports of LyX are painfully familiar with the evils of spaces, but by > making LyX more Windows-friendly, you're probably going to create a > generation of new users who won't have any idea that anything > LyX-related might gork at the sight of a space. Sure. It's our own fault for using such a can of worms as TeX for our backend... -- Angus
