Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: 11.84

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2006-08-24) writes:
>
>> AUCTeX should handle file names with spaces in them.  The way to do
>> this is to not call tex/latex with "\input ...".  We can pretty
>> much do everything necessary for that with command line options,
>> except TeX-DVI-via-PDFTeX.
>
> If you thought this would get better with MiKTeX 2.5:
>
> $ pdflatex -output-format dvi foo
> pdflatex.exe: Invalid command-line option
> $ pdflatex --help | grep output-format
>
> $ pdflatex --version
> MiKTeX-pdfetex 2.5.2365 (1.30.6) (MiKTeX 2.5)
                          ^^^^^^^^
> Copyright (C) 1982 D. E. Knuth, (C) 1996-2002 Han The Thanh
                                           ^^^^

Oh wow.  But that's not really our problem.  Anyway, I suspect that
MikTeX 2.5 should not require TeX-DVI-via-PDFTeX but use pdfetex also
for the latex command, right?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum