[AUCTeX-devel] Re: An idea about a change:

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2006-08-07) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>>
>> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>>  ...
>>
>> <*> \input{foo bar.tex}
>>
>> ? x
>> No pages of output.
>
> Is this really cmd.exe?

Yes.

>>>latex "\input{\"foo bar.tex\"}"
>> This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4)
>> entering extended mode
>> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
>> Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, 
>> ge
>> rman, ngerman, french, loaded.
>> (foo bar.tex (C:\Programme\MikTeX\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
>> (C:\Programme\MikTeX\texmf\tex\latex\base\size10.clo))
>> (C:\Programme\MikTeX\texmf\tex\generic\babel\babel.sty
>> (C:\Programme\MikTeX\texmf\tex\generic\babel\germanb.ldf
>> (C:\Programme\MikTeX\texmf\tex\generic\babel\babel.def)))
>> (C:\Programme\MikTeX\texmf\tex\latex\base\fontenc.sty
>> (C:\Programme\MikTeX\texmf\tex\latex\base\t1enc.def))
>> (C:\Programme\MikTeX\texmf\tex\latex\base\inputenc.sty
>> (C:\Programme\MikTeX\texmf\tex\latex\base\latin1.def))
>> (C:\Programme\MikTeX\localtexmf\tex\latex\preview\preview.sty
>> (C:\Programme\MikTeX\localtexmf\tex\latex\preview\prshowlabels.def))
>>
>> ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
>>
>> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>>  ...
>>
>> l.36 \begin{document}
>>
>> ? x
>> No pages of output.
>> Transcript written on "foo bar.log".
>
> This actually looks fine, except that it is missing \begin{document}
> at \begin{document}.  Are you sure that the contents of "foo bar.tex"
> are fine?

$ diff circ.tex foo\ bar.tex 

$ 

> Or does the thing have problems opening \jobname.aux?
>
> What does \message{\jobname} report?

foo bar

> And is this different when
> calling
>
> latex "foo bar"
>
> ?

Yes, this reports
"foo bar"

That means the former without quotation marks the latter with them.

> Looks like the treatment of " is more similar than I thought.  Is this
> really cmd.exe?

Yes.

-- 
Ralf