On Apr 18, 2:37 am, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > >> Unfortunately, yes the command (and especially the html_file and > >> text_file which you also un-quoted) can contain spaces especially if > >> they have a path. For instance think "Program Files" on Windows and > >> user directories which often contain spaces in their paths. > > > yes, that's right. but w.r.t. the browser itself probably not so much: > > the text-based browsers I know of have sure > > no blanks in there names (w3m, lynx, links, elinks). so maybe the > > quoting fo the browser variables could still go away? > > it would make life a bit easier by allowing to include fixed options > > in `a2x.conf'. > > Hi Joerg, >
hi lex, > If I am specifying the browser name it is probably because it is > installed somewhere non-standard and I have to specify the *path* > which could possibly have spaces in it. I admit it could happen, though I would argue for having the executables on the calling shell's search path (my reason for specifying the browser actually was different: the different browsers produce slightly different `.text' approximations of the html and I was not really happy with the `w3m' output so I wanted to use a different one). and it's not a real problem, of course, if your patch regarding passing options via the a2x command line to the respective browser finds its way into the next release. still, I feel it would be somehow nicer to be able to specify fixed options (for instance, fixing the width always to 80 chars or similar) in the definition of LYNX and W3M instead of specifying them in each and every `a2x' call. but I understand this would require parsing the defining strings to separate the `path_to_browser_executable' (possibly including blanks) from the options. but admittedly it's really a "nano-issue" (if not a non-issue) and maybe not worth the effort to do so. best regards, joerg > > Cheers > Lex > > > best regards, > > joerg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
