On 24 Aug 2010, at 09:31, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:52:13AM +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > >> Well the docu of grffile says that "space" works only for pdftex in >> pdf-mode. It is perhaps possible to extend grffile for xetex: >> xdvipdfmx seems to be able to use the graphic. You could ask the >> author or a comp.text.tex. > > I would be happy to improve the support for XeTeX in grffile. > However, I do not know any other driver than pdfTeX (or LuaTeX) > that provide a safe file existence check. In case of pdfTeX > package grffile uses \pdffilesize, the file name argument > is <general text> as \pdfximage uses. > > Some TeX ports support double quotes, but > * a simple reliable test is missing whether this feature is supported, > * a specification of the quoting rules is missing, > * it makes the problem worse, now also quotes can't be used > in file names, although most file systems and OPs allow them. > * ... <snip> > However it would be nice, if the file name problem could > be solved in a clean way.
Thanks Heiko. Count me in as a tester when you do work on it. I'm loving the Unicode and fontspec in XeTeX; they have wiped away the objections I had for TeX and I'm right back into it where I should have been years ago. Elliott Roper -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
