Hi Hans,

The following works for me both with mkii and mkiv (running Mac OS X 10.6.2).

Yes, I knew that. Adding the full path inside the \externalfigure works. But I would like to access picture files by separately adressing directory and filename, not combining them explicitely. \setupexternalfigures[directory=..] was made for this. The annoying thing is that \setupexternalfigures and \externalfigure apparently do not work seamlessly together.

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\starttext
\input "exercise english.tex"
\page
\externalfigure[pictures folder/old friend.jpg][maxwidth=3cm,maxheight=4cm,frame=on]

\stoptext
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My images are in the « folder » or directory « pictures folder » and my file is called « old friend.jpg », so the command \externalfigure is clever enough (not surprising from an old ConTeXt command…) and doesn't need any double quotes.
However for an \input file I have to say « \input "exercise english.tex" ».

Actually in general I avoid to have spaces in my file names, but I just tried the above in order to understand your question.

On 13 janv. 2010, at 11:51, Hans van der Meer wrote:

I would like to include a file with spaces in its name.
Clearly it does not work using: \input /Users/me/dir with spaces/file
I can use something like:
\def\DataDirectory#1{\def\DATADIRECTORY{#1/}} % in reality coping with empty #1
\DataDirectory{/Users/me/dir with spaces}
\def\Input#1{\input "\DATADIRECTORY#1"}
and then that file is read.
When however I want to set this directory with
\setupexternalfigures[directory=\DATADIRECTORY]
it does not find the picture file there.

How can I accomplish the setup? Do I miss something? Using contextbeta, if that makes a difference.

Hans van der Meer
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