Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Sounds right for *nix, but spaces in paths are a way of life in the > Windoze world (not sure about Macs, but I think they're legal there, > too).
And your point is? LyX could happily support spaces in paths. However, it farms out all the 'hard' work to other utilities. Specifically, to farms out the typesetting of the printed page to TeX. TeX can't handle spaces in paths. We do debate occasionally whether we should _force_ you all to use a temp directory for all the temporary files generated during the creation of a dvi,ps or pdf file. Such a requirement _would_ enable you to visualise your output because we could mangle all file names. If the path of the tmp directory did not contain spaces that is. However, you'd still run into problems when you exported the latex file and gave it to a co-worker. So. There is no obvious work around for a TeX limitation. Don't use spaces in file paths if you want LyX to work as you'd like. -- Angus
