Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Geisler wrote: > >>Do you really mean that Microsoft decided on a default install path >>with spaces just to annoy all the future Unix-centric programs being >>ported to Windows? > > That is hard to know - I guess they simply see this as a 'bonus', > they probably weren't smart enough to pull this one of > deliberately. :-/
Hehe :-) > Sure - a space path is normal on windows, and LyX tries to cope with > those too. I think LyX do this quite well, but LyX does not work > alone. It depend on many other programs to do its work - most > notably latex. [...] You're of course completely right -- I didn't write my post carefully enough. What I wanted to argue against was the idea that just because there is an obvious work-around for the case with spaces in pathnames, it is not okay for BibTeX/LaTeX/whoever to rely on it when running under Windows. -- Martin Geisler GnuPG Key: 0x7E45DD38 PHP Exif Library | PHP Weather | PHP Shell http://pel.sf.net/ | http://phpweather.net/ | http://mgeisler.net/ Read/write Exif data | Show current weather | A shell in a browser
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