On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:18:38PM -0700, James Frye wrote: > Which I suppose was really my point: The universe in which I think most > Lyx users spend most of their time is one in which simple, sensible > software is a desirable goal. The rule about filenames not containing > spaces is there for a reason (just as for instance there are rules about > which side of the road you drive on)
There is no such rule in UNIX. It's a LaTeX bug. That simple. > For that matter, even in Windows the real filenames don't contain spaces. > Rather, each file has a name which follows the 8.3 rule, and a text label > that can be used instead. That label may contain spaces (and be quite > long), but the filename doesn't. Thus for instance the "Program Files" > directory is really named "PROGRA~1", and people forced to follow Windows > conventions can easily use that instead. This is not how things work. "PROGRA~1" is most definitely NOT the "real filename". john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.
