Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Angus> Reading http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/FilesWithSpecialChars and > Angus> http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LaTeX/FilesWithSpecialChars/filenames.tex, > Angus> I don't see why a ':' in a file name won't work, but you're the > Angus> one using this stuff... > > I guess ':' is a problem in a windows file name if it is not the drive > separator.
Not from a LaTeX point of view. The OS will complain that such a file name is illegal and that the file can't exist. I don't think that we need to do anything special to handle such situations. One thing that I have noticed (not a bug, but an inconsistency) is that in the Preferences dialog, the Paths pane displays all paths in UNIX style. This looks a little odd because at the bottom of the list is the "prepend_path" variable which is displayed as "C:\foo\bar;C:\bar\baz". Do you think that we should pass the other paths through (in,ex}ternal_path() ? -- Angus
