On 12/04/2011 07:55 AM, David wrote: > Dear all, > > I have been using MikTeX 2.8 and has recently upgraded to MikTeX 2.9. > To ensure my LyX (2.0) runs smoothly I uninstalled that and > reinstalled the latest version (2.0.2), pointing it to my latest > MikTex installation. However, when I use it to compile my document > (Ctrl+R) a message box appears immediately saying that "The directory > path to the document cannot contain spaces", an error that I have > never encountered before. Yes I know my directory contains spaces but > it worked fine before I did all these changes. Moving my file > somewhere else works, but certainly it will be too troublesome to do > that every time. Furthermore my directory is something like "D:\My > Documents\blahblahblah" and I clearly cannot change "My Documents" to > something else. > Actually, you can change it. I don't have Windows machines in my house any more, but I used to do it routinely on my wife's machine.
> Is there an alternative method that can bypass this problem? > It would seem that the configuration script has for some reason decided MikTeX won't allow spaces. You might try reconfiguring, but then again, if the configure script failed this test, then there may be an issue. Windows people may be able to give more advice. Richard
