[texhax] special characters in \includegraphics arg?

[Martin Schröder]

2007/8/29, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:
> Suppose I want to use \includegraphics to insert a file whose name
> contains \ or # (among other, obviously) characters, for instance:
>   \includegraphics{c:\somefile#.jpg}

Try to avoid this. When I had to write an application that had to
include arbitrary files via \includegraphics, I had the application
create symlinks from these files to files with names TeX can handle
easily, and then let TeX include these files.

Best
   Martin