On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:29:20PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Bo> Hi, Enrico, JMarc, Configure.py stops at checkTeXAllowSpace, so
> Bo> \nonstopmode does not work as expected.
>
> This is why I did not fix this instance of nonstopmode in my patch :)
> I suspected something like that would happen... (the error happens
> before \nonstopmode is seen).
>
> The solution would be to have some temp file which does
> \input{"a b"}
> (is that what we are checking?), just like we do for the cygwin check.
Not necessarily. The following works on *nix:
latex '\nonstopmode\input{"a b"}'
but that silly windows shell wants this instead:
latex "\nonstopmode\input{\"a b\"}"
So, using if/then/else a temp file could be avoided.
--
Enrico
