Re: [NTG-context] special character in filename

2011-03-06 Thread Vnpenguin
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 21:26, Thomas Schmitz tschm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 20:09:12 +  Reviczky, Adam adam.revic...@kcl.ac.uk wrote: It works with the + character though. The same problem goes for the directory names; directories with ~ in the name drops and error, even

Re: [NTG-context] special character in filename

2011-03-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6-3-2011 9:36, Vnpenguin wrote: /dev/null as folder name ? Wow, what a crazy idea ! well, \input /dev/null/thesis-chapter-1.tex does miracles (in germany) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA

[NTG-context] special character in filename

2011-03-05 Thread Reviczky, Adam
Hi Context fails to run with an input (filename or directoryname) that includes special characters. example files: %%% reviczky@arlequin ~/minimal % la total 0 drwxrwxr-x 1 reviczky reviczky 60 2011-03-05 19:58 ./ drwxr-xr-x 1 reviczky reviczky 2148 2011-03-05 20:00 ../ drwxrwxr-x 1 reviczky

Re: [NTG-context] special character in filename

2011-03-05 Thread Thomas Schmitz
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 20:09:12 + Reviczky, Adam adam.revic...@kcl.ac.uk wrote: It works with the + character though. The same problem goes for the directory names; directories with ~ in the name drops and error, even if the filename has no special characters in it. Can this be fixed?

Re: [NTG-context] special character in filename

2011-03-05 Thread Reviczky, Adam
Yeah, please fix this ASAP. I keep all my context files in a directory which I call /dev/null, and for some reason, this doesn't really work. But I am not going to change the name of my directory, no, you have to rewrite your software! Thomas Dear Thomas I understand, that it's not a good

Re: [NTG-context] special character in filename

2011-03-05 Thread Thomas Schmitz
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 20:38:13 + Reviczky, Adam adam.revic...@kcl.ac.uk wrote: Dear Thomas I understand, that it's not a good idea, and I've seen similar issues on the list (http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/052339.html). I ran into this by making a deb package of a software

Re: [NTG-context] special character in filename

2011-03-05 Thread Reviczky, Adam
only Hans can decide if this can/should be changed I won't argue for any changes, just thought to ask about it. A simple yes, can be done or no, its a really bad idea is perfectly enough for me. I'll think about a workaround outside context. Cheers, Adam

Re: [NTG-context] special character in filename

2011-03-05 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Reviczky, Adam wrote: only Hans can decide if this can/should be changed I won't argue for any changes, just thought to ask about it. I'll think about a workaround outside context. The error is with the backend. luatex (and pdftex and even tex) do not like filenames

Re: [NTG-context] special character in filename

2011-03-05 Thread Peter Münster
Reviczky, Adam adam.revic...@kcl.ac.uk writes: only Hans can decide if this can/should be changed I won't argue for any changes, just thought to ask about it. A simple yes, can be done or no, its a really bad idea is perfectly enough for me. See also section 1.7 on page 11 of the ConTeXt