Bug#295129: tetex-bin: pdflatex doesn't handle files with space in their name

To: LT-P <LT-P@lt-p.net>
Cc: 295129@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#295129: tetex-bin: pdflatex doesn't handle files with space in their name
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:23:05 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 87wttbqw3a.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch>
Reply-to: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>, 295129@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] E1D0R5j-0003hq-00@arda.LT-P.net> (LT-P@LT-P.net's message of "Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:15:40 +0100")
References: <[🔎] E1D0R5j-0003hq-00@arda.LT-P.net>

LT-P <LT-P@LT-P.net> schrieb:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.2-26
> Severity: normal
>
> pdflatex cannot compile a tex file with space in its name.
>
> ___
> $ pdflatex conv\ SDEN\ 2005.tex 
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> entering extended mode
> ! I can't find file `conv'.

This is not specific to pdf(la)tex, it also occurs with all other
engines in teTeX (and also with teTeX-3.0, albeit with a different error
message). 

I am sure upstream knows about this problem; but I wouldn't say it's
really a bug, rather a wishlist issue.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer

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