Thanks Mitch.

Point 1 is sort of iffy. In general, it would be nice to support spaces
in filenames. Whether we like it or not, the computing world is moving
in a direction where it is expected that you can do this.

Point 2 is the real problem here, that gsch2pcb doesn't produce the
correct output as a result of there being a space in the footprint
filename. The bug is in the gsch2pcb.scm gnetlist backend... written in
scheme... Maybe I can get one of the gschem/gnetlist developers to fix
this.

Point 3 is a bug in pcb, that pcb provides no explanation as to why it
failed to load the file. Unfortunately, this may be a difficult bug to
fix as our parser is not easy to work with. I'll have to dig into this
at some point, but it's going to take a fair bit of time to work out.

Possible workarounds:
1. Forego putting the footprint into gschem, and then add the footprint 
manually in pcb using File > Load element data to paste-buffer and then 
renaming the element with the correct refdes. 

2. Create a copy of the offending footprint files, rename them without
spaces, label the parts with those footprint names in gschem, and then
point gsch2pcb at your local footprint library with the renamed parts.

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