On 10/07/08 04:30, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On 7 Oct 2008, at 2:30 AM, Mahn-Soo Choi wrote:
> 
>> I tested it on Terminal (not Emacs), and it seems that SyncTeX
>> produces
>> quotes (intended or not).  For example,
>> 
>> pdflatex -synctex=1 filename\ with\ spaces.tex
>> 
>> produces
>> 
>> "filename with spaces".synctex.gz  (NOT filename with
>> spaces.synctex.gz)
>> 
>> (Note that inside this .synctex.gz file there's no quotes around the
>> file names.
>> I mean, it behaves a bit differently from PDFSync.)
>> 
>> If you manually rename the .synctex.gz file to remove the quotes,
>> Emacs <-> Skim works correctly.
>> 
>> Carbon Emacs handles spaces in file names properly
>> (maybe some very old codes still exist who don't work in very rare
>> cases).
>> 
>> mahn-soo
>> 
> 
> It's indeed a pdfetex and synctex problem, it does not seem to be
> happening with xetex. I figured out a workaround, so in the next
> release it should work. Anyway, it's generally best not to use file
> names with spaces, as tex does not treat it properly, so you should
> never be surprised to run into problems.

It sounds like this was a known problem, due to internal TeX weirdness:

http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2008-September/003685.html



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