"Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> (I sent this message last week, and though received no error message > it didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the > archive). Apologies if it is a duplicate.) > _______________ > > > I get this message when try to preview a file that (suprise) is in a > directory that has spaces in its name. > > Not that this is a huge deal, I'm just curious... why is this? > > Though I must say that it is refreshing to get an error message that > tells you _exactly_ what went wrong, which unfortunately so many > programs don't do. > > B. In case you're a Windows user, a couple of tips that I *think* will work (seem to work for me): 1. For paths to viewers, etc. (paths you enter into LyX as options), you can get around the no-spaces issue by escaping spaces with \. So, for instance, if your DVI viewer is in C:\Program Files\WinDVI, for instance, you could enter that as /Program\ Files/WinDVI/windvi.exe. 2. That doesn't work for files passed to LaTeX, etc. I like to keep my LyX files in subdirectories under My Documents, so the trick is to put a symbolic link in my Cygwin home directory that contains no spaces (for instance, /home/rubin/mydocuments links to C:\ridiculously_long_path\My Documents). Not sure how to handle this if you're using the native Win32 port of LyX, and of course all bets are off if you're a Mac user. -- Paul ************************************************************************* Paul A. Rubin Phone: (517) 432-3509 Department of Management Fax: (517) 432-1111 The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ************************************************************************* Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different. J. W. v. GOETHE
