Re: Windows Scripts

[Mats Bengtsson]

A workaround, is to let the script copy the file to a temporary
location, process it there and then move it back. Of course, it
may be a problem with include files.

   Mats

Chris Jackson wrote:
> Fodor Bertalan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > But Ly2dvi doesn't like file names with spaces:
>
>
> Is this restriction to files and directories without spaces really an
> insurmountable problem?  Could fixing this be just a matter of quoting or
> escaping the appropriate file and directory path strings (from a brief peek,
> would this be include_path?) within ly2dvi?  Or would this have side-effects
> for portability (does a similar restriction exist on Linux?)
>
> It seems to me that fixing it at the core would be nicer than putting in the
> documentation that users need to work around it.  For better or worse,
> default directories with spaces are here to stay on Windows.  If we start to
> recommend Jérémie's clickable-ly script as the way for newbies to run lily,
> then it'd be nice if ly files would be clickable from anywhere.

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