On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 04:34:57PM +0100, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Georg Baum wrote: > > > Anders Ekberg wrote: > > > >> I know that spaces and international characters have been discussed > >> as issues before. Are these problems supposed to be solved in version > >> 1.4? > > If I'm not mistaken, latex2e does not work with a filename with > international letters. This problem is solved with pdfetex. Maybe it is > better to push users to avoid international letters and spaces in their > filenames.
If they use latex2e. On debian testing "latex" is pdfetex so life is easier. :-) With unicode support planned for lyx 1.5, I hope this sort of problem disappear for good. "Don't use 'international' characters" is a serious problem once you try explaining it to a "plain user", that is someone who don't know computer history; particularly the part about ascii. If said user have a language where non-ascii characters is a part of the regular alphabet, then the restriction seems arbitrary and silly in the extreme. Try explaining to a boss that "this sw is quite good, but oh, when saving a file (or inserting labels for referencing, or ...) don't use any letter from the last half of the alphabet. The alphabet really stops at "m" for these particular uses! I believe most people would just dismiss such software as useless/incomplete until fixed. Helge Hafting
