Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-24 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:19:05AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2003 10:53 pm, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Under Cygwin, LyX already attempts to fix the path (for all exported files, paths to pictures, etc). The fix is to output the Windows name (e.g.

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: No. It produced garbage for the graphics name. I have attached the tex files (from the LyX temp directory). The difficulties of writing code without being able to test it out... I am going to go back to my hack, since it works correctly. Fair enough. We let this drop

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote: Or perhaps you meant that the fact that a computer has directories with spaces in their names indicates there may be a bug in the brain of the individual who created it? That I will acknowledge

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-24 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:19:05AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2003 10:53 pm, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Under Cygwin, LyX already attempts to fix the path (for all exported files, paths to pictures, etc). The fix is to output the Windows name (e.g.

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: No. It produced garbage for the graphics name. I have attached the tex files (from the LyX temp directory). The difficulties of writing code without being able to test it out... I am going to go back to my hack, since it works correctly. Fair enough. We let this drop

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote: Or perhaps you meant that the fact that a computer has directories with spaces in their names indicates there may be a bug in the brain of the individual who created it? That I will acknowledge

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-24 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:19:05AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 10:53 pm, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > Under Cygwin, LyX already attempts to fix the path (for all exported > > files, paths to pictures, etc). The fix is to output the Windows name > > (e.g.

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > No. It produced garbage for the graphics name. I have attached the tex > files (from the LyX temp directory). The difficulties of writing code without being able to test it out... > I am going to go back to my hack, since it works correctly. Fair enough. We let this

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-24 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James Frye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote: > >> Or perhaps you meant that the fact that a computer has directories with >> spaces in their names indicates there may be a bug in the brain of the >> individual who created it? That I will

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Paul == Paul A Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul That those of us using Windows (not all voluntarily, I might Paul add) do have to make accommodations (such as renaming Paul directories, or adding symbolic links) to use LyX (and, for that Paul matter, most any software ported from Unix-like

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread James Frye
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, John Levon wrote: This is not how things work. PROGRA~1 is most definitely NOT the real filename. Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of reality :-) What I know ('cause I just tried it) is that if I open a basic command-line prompt window on

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Angus Leeming
James Frye wrote: Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of reality :-) What I know ('cause I just tried it) is that if I open a basic command-line prompt window on Win 2K, and do a dir \progra~1, I get expected output from the dir command. If instead I do dir

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, James Frye wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, John Levon wrote: This is not how things work. PROGRA~1 is most definitely NOT the real filename. Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of reality :-) What I know ('cause I just tried it) is that

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] James Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, John Levon wrote: This is not how things work. PROGRA~1 is most definitely NOT the real filename. Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of reality :-)

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Having said that, if you (that's a collective you, I guess) can provide us with a cast-iron prescription to obtain the 8.3 version of the name from its pretty-printing wrapper, then you may all just be in luck. Does Win32 have

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread James Frye
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Christian Ridderström wrote: This behaviour is actually identical to *nix shells, you have to quote the argument... for instance by doing: dir \program files The reason that you get two File Not Found is because you're trying to list '\program' and

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, James Frye wrote: Guess we must have learned *nix from different sources, then. IIRC - it has been a couple of decades - not using characters such as , , , or space was one of the basic Intro to Unix things. Well... I wouldn't recommend it in an introduction ;-) And it

Re: OT Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-23, 19:42 GMT, James Frye wrote: Guess we must have learned *nix from different sources, then. IIRC - it has been a couple of decades - not using characters such as , , , or space was one of the basic Intro to Unix things. Though as you learn more (or make more mistakes), you

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Having said that, if you (that's a collective you, I guess) can provide us with a cast-iron prescription to obtain the 8.3 version of the name from its pretty-printing wrapper, then you may all just be in

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:24:51PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Could you (or indeed anyone else with access to a compiler environment on a Win32 box) write and test the equivalent function? I'd imagine it would be something like size_t const size =

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 10:53 pm, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Under Cygwin, LyX already attempts to fix the path (for all exported files, paths to pictures, etc). The fix is to output the Windows name (e.g. C:/Cygwin/Home/Kayvan/foo.lyx) for all file references. Well, apart from the final

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Bruce
Seeing as I started this thread, may as well wade in with my strictly non-technical end user perspective ... On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:48:42PM -0500, Les Denham wrote: As far as I know, Windows is the only significant operating system which allows spaces in file and directory names.

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:19:05AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2003 10:53 pm, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Under Cygwin, LyX already attempts to fix the path (for all exported files, paths to pictures, etc). The fix is to output the Windows name (e.g.

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Paul == Paul A Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul That those of us using Windows (not all voluntarily, I might Paul add) do have to make accommodations (such as renaming Paul directories, or adding symbolic links) to use LyX (and, for that Paul matter, most any software ported from Unix-like

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread James Frye
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, John Levon wrote: This is not how things work. PROGRA~1 is most definitely NOT the real filename. Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of reality :-) What I know ('cause I just tried it) is that if I open a basic command-line prompt window on

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Angus Leeming
James Frye wrote: Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of reality :-) What I know ('cause I just tried it) is that if I open a basic command-line prompt window on Win 2K, and do a dir \progra~1, I get expected output from the dir command. If instead I do dir

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, James Frye wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, John Levon wrote: This is not how things work. PROGRA~1 is most definitely NOT the real filename. Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of reality :-) What I know ('cause I just tried it) is that

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] James Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, John Levon wrote: This is not how things work. PROGRA~1 is most definitely NOT the real filename. Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of reality :-)

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Having said that, if you (that's a collective you, I guess) can provide us with a cast-iron prescription to obtain the 8.3 version of the name from its pretty-printing wrapper, then you may all just be in luck. Does Win32 have

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread James Frye
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Christian Ridderström wrote: This behaviour is actually identical to *nix shells, you have to quote the argument... for instance by doing: dir \program files The reason that you get two File Not Found is because you're trying to list '\program' and

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, James Frye wrote: Guess we must have learned *nix from different sources, then. IIRC - it has been a couple of decades - not using characters such as , , , or space was one of the basic Intro to Unix things. Well... I wouldn't recommend it in an introduction ;-) And it

Re: OT Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-23, 19:42 GMT, James Frye wrote: Guess we must have learned *nix from different sources, then. IIRC - it has been a couple of decades - not using characters such as , , , or space was one of the basic Intro to Unix things. Though as you learn more (or make more mistakes), you

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Having said that, if you (that's a collective you, I guess) can provide us with a cast-iron prescription to obtain the 8.3 version of the name from its pretty-printing wrapper, then you may all just be in

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:24:51PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Could you (or indeed anyone else with access to a compiler environment on a Win32 box) write and test the equivalent function? I'd imagine it would be something like size_t const size =

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 10:53 pm, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Under Cygwin, LyX already attempts to fix the path (for all exported files, paths to pictures, etc). The fix is to output the Windows name (e.g. C:/Cygwin/Home/Kayvan/foo.lyx) for all file references. Well, apart from the final

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Bruce
Seeing as I started this thread, may as well wade in with my strictly non-technical end user perspective ... On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:48:42PM -0500, Les Denham wrote: As far as I know, Windows is the only significant operating system which allows spaces in file and directory names.

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-23 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:19:05AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2003 10:53 pm, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: Under Cygwin, LyX already attempts to fix the path (for all exported files, paths to pictures, etc). The fix is to output the Windows name (e.g.

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Paul" == Paul A Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> That those of us using Windows (not all voluntarily, I might Paul> add) do have to make accommodations (such as renaming Paul> directories, or adding symbolic links) to use LyX (and, for that Paul> matter, most any software ported

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread James Frye
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, John Levon wrote: > This is not how things work. "PROGRA~1" is most definitely NOT the > "real filename". Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of reality :-) What I know ('cause I just tried it) is that if I open a basic command-line prompt

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread Angus Leeming
James Frye wrote: > Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of > reality :-) What I know ('cause I just tried it) is that if I open a > basic command-line prompt window on Win 2K, and do a "dir \progra~1", I > get expected output from the dir command. If instead I do

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, James Frye wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, John Levon wrote: > > > This is not how things work. "PROGRA~1" is most definitely NOT the > > "real filename". > > Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of > reality :-) What I know ('cause I just tried

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[posted and mailed] James Frye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, John Levon wrote: > >> This is not how things work. "PROGRA~1" is most definitely NOT the >> "real filename". > > Well, that gets us into philosophical discussions about the nature of >

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Having said that, if you (that's a collective you, I guess) can > provide us with a cast-iron prescription to obtain the 8.3 version of > the name from its pretty-printing wrapper, then you may all just be in > luck. Does Win32

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread James Frye
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Christian Ridderström wrote: > This behaviour is actually identical to *nix shells, you have to quote the > argument... for instance by doing: > dir "\program files" > > The reason that you get two "File Not Found" is because you're trying to > list

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, James Frye wrote: > Guess we must have learned *nix from different sources, then. IIRC - it > has been a couple of decades - not using characters such as <, >, &, or > space was one of the basic "Intro to Unix" things. Well... I wouldn't recommend it in an introduction ;-)

Re: OT "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-23, 19:42 GMT, James Frye wrote: > Guess we must have learned *nix from different sources, then. IIRC - it > has been a couple of decades - not using characters such as <, >, &, or > space was one of the basic "Intro to Unix" things. Though as you learn > more (or make more mistakes),

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> Having said that, if you (that's a collective you, I guess) can >> provide us with a cast-iron prescription to obtain the 8.3 version of >> the name from its pretty-printing wrapper, then you may all

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:24:51PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Could you (or indeed anyone else with access to a compiler environment on a > Win32 box) write and test the equivalent function? > > I'd imagine it would be something like > > size_t const size = >

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 10:53 pm, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > Under Cygwin, LyX already attempts to fix the path (for all exported > files, paths to pictures, etc). The fix is to output the Windows name > (e.g. "C:/Cygwin/Home/Kayvan/foo.lyx") for all file references. Well, apart from the

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread Bruce
Seeing as I started this thread, may as well wade in with my strictly non-technical end user perspective ... > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:48:42PM -0500, Les Denham wrote: >> As far as I know, Windows is the only significant operating system which >> allows spaces in file and directory names. >

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-23 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:19:05AM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 10:53 pm, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > Under Cygwin, LyX already attempts to fix the path (for all exported > > files, paths to pictures, etc). The fix is to output the Windows name > > (e.g.

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote: 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? There's an obvious

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 22 September 2003 13:40, 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). Any software which allows commands with arguments has to have some way of separating commands

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
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.

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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? That those of us using Windows (not all

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread James Frye
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in That those of us using Windows (not all voluntarily, I might add) do have to make accommodations (such as renaming directories, or adding symbolic links) to use LyX (and, for that matter, most any software

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread John Levon
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

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: 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

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:35:55PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: 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

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James Frye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote: 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? There's an obvious

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 22 September 2003 13:40, 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). Any software which allows commands with arguments has to have some way of separating commands

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
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.

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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? That those of us using Windows (not all

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread James Frye
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in That those of us using Windows (not all voluntarily, I might add) do have to make accommodations (such as renaming directories, or adding symbolic links) to use LyX (and, for that matter, most any software

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread John Levon
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

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: 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

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-22 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:35:55PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: 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

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
James Frye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote: > >> 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? > >

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-22 Thread Les Denham
On Monday 22 September 2003 13:40, 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). Any software which allows commands with arguments has to have some way of separating

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-22 Thread Angus Leeming
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.

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 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? That those of us using

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-22 Thread James Frye
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > > That those of us using Windows (not all voluntarily, I might add) do have > to make accommodations (such as renaming directories, or adding symbolic > links) to use LyX (and, for that matter, most any

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-22 Thread John Levon
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

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-22 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: > 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

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-22 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:35:55PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2003-09-22, 23:18 GMT, James Frye wrote: > > 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

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-19 Thread James Frye
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote: 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? There's an obvious answer: file and directory names should NEVER contain spaces. If

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-19 Thread James Frye
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote: 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? There's an obvious answer: file and directory names should NEVER contain spaces. If

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-19 Thread James Frye
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Bruce wrote: > 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? There's an obvious answer: file and directory names should NEVER contain spaces.

Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
(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

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Bruce wrote: (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.) As I seem to remember having answered it probably made it

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 20:49 18.09.2003 +, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Not sure how to handle this if you're using the native Win32 port of LyX, I solved it by installing the other software in simple pathes for a second time. Should be the fastest solution. Regards M. -- http://www.logies.de/ (u. a. _die_

Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
(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

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Bruce wrote: (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.) As I seem to remember having answered it probably made it

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
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

Re: Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 20:49 18.09.2003 +, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Not sure how to handle this if you're using the native Win32 port of LyX, I solved it by installing the other software in simple pathes for a second time. Should be the fastest solution. Regards M. -- http://www.logies.de/ (u. a. _die_

"Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
(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

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-18 Thread Bruce
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Bruce wrote: >> (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.) > > As I seem to remember having answered it probably made

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
"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

Re: "Path to the lyx file cannot contain spaces"

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Logies
At 20:49 18.09.2003 +, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Not sure how to handle this if you're using the native Win32 port of LyX, I solved it by installing the other software in simple pathes for a second time. Should be the fastest solution. Regards M. -- http://www.logies.de/ (u. a. _die_