"Philip" == Philip TAYLOR
writes:
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 ...
Nobody forces you to use double quotes. TeX still works as it did 20 years ago. Why do we need a TeX parser to process filenames? What is the advantage if files are inaccessible? Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------