Re: [NTG-pdftex] [texhax] Passing Underscore

Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

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"John" == John R Culleton writes:

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Very interesting, although I usually rename all those (IMO silly) Windows type filenames with spaces in them.

I do so as well. It's more a GUI than a Windows problem.

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Now what about two spaces in a row? Just curious.

I tried and it seems that there is a severe bug in pdftex.

\input "foo bar"

loads the file "foo bar.tex" which is certainly not desired behavior.

Well, it may not be "desired", but it's certainly consistent with TeX's underlying scanner/parser, which will have already elided multiple spaces into a single space before \input gets a chance to see things. If you change TeX's behaviour here, you really are getting away from TeX as a consistent platform, and in grave danger of creating a chimera, which I don't think is actually your intention or your desire ... ** Phil.