[XeTeX] Strange problem with 0.996 and 0.9995 xetex and File Names.

[John Was]

Personally I keep strictly to the old 8.3 file-naming rubric.  Indeed, 
sometimes the naming process is the only interesting thing about a file...

Best


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herbert Schulz" <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
To: "OS X XeTeX" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:01 PM
Subject: [XeTeX] Strange problem with 0.996 and 0.9995 xetex and File Names.


> Howdy,
>
> Someone on the TeXShop Forum came up with a rather strange problem  using 
> either xetex 0.996 (or 0.9995 in the TL-2009 pretest) involving  file 
> names with spaces in them. Using a file with name `Summary  II.tex' the 
> following error was generated
>
> ! I can't find file `"Summary II.texSELFAUTOPARENT"'.
> <*> "Summary II.tex"SELFAUTOPARENT
>
> on his system, with a similar error (SELFAUTOPARENT is expanded) on my 
> system. Using `Summary 2.tex' or removing the space, `SummaryII.tex', 
> works fine while `Summary 22.tex' fails.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
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