Bugs item #776, was opened at 2007-04-17 22:48 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=776&group_id=106 Category: Primitives Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Reinhard Kotucha (reinhard) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Filenames with multiple spaces are not recognized Initial Comment: $ echo 'hello world\bye' > hello\ \ world.tex $ cat hello\ \ world.tex hello world\bye $ pdftex hello\ \ world.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) entering extended mode ! I can't find file `"hello world.tex"'. <*> "hello world.tex" Please type another input file name: It seems that pdftex gets the correct name (with two spaces) but it is searching for something different. Regards, Reinhard ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Taco Hoekwater (taco) Date: 2007-04-17 23:20

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1608 It will handle this properly: $ pdftex hello\ \space\ world.tex The problem (of course) is that the tokenizer will fold two (or more) tokens of \catcode 10 into a single one, so you have to prevent tex from seeing two of these in-a-row. It may actually be possible to fix the case where the file is given as a single argument on the commandline, but fixing the general case is unreasonably hard (e.g. \input commands used inside macros), I do not think would be worth the effort and therefore vote for documenting the current behaviour as a known limitation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=776&group_id=106