On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:48:09 +0100 Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bo Peng wrote: > > >>Guys, I'm amazed that this thread has gone on as long as it has. I'm going > >>to pop my head in at the door one final time and will then leave you to > >>play on your own again. > >> > >> > > > >I am amazed as well, in that many people even do not consider this as > >a bug. A bug report has been created > >(http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2186) and accepted as NEW so > >we should just wait for someone (Andre? Georg?) to fix it. > > > > > > > Feel free to call it a bug - but the bug is not in lyx so an entry in > bugzilla.lyx.org is wrong. latex/bibtex is where the bug is, > and they have a different forum. > > >I would also like to leave this thread with some final remarks. > > > >The root of this problem is of course from latex/bibtex and if a > >normal user really knows latex, has read all the documentations (lyx > >and latex), he should not put a .bst file under a path with spaces > >(and be considered as pro-user :-). However, most lyx users do *not* > >know latex that well and the goal of lyx is exactly to provide a > >user-friendly GUI to latex to allow such users to use latex easily. We > >have successfully circumstanced similar problems with .lyx, .bib, > >.eps etc, why not .bst files? > > > >Regarding whether or not this is a lyx bug, I would definitely say yes > >in recognition of the fact that lyx allows certain user input and > >produces defective output without warning. > > > You think it'd be better if lyx simply refused, saying "no, > I can't use that .bst file, because it happens to be in a > path with spaces so bibtex is going to choke on it" ? > > There is one reason why that would be a bad move, bibtex > might get fixed into accepting paths with spaces someday, and then > lyx would be protection against a bug that no longer exist. Then > lyx would need to be fixed again. > IIRC that was the state of things back when windows lyx couldn't handle spaces in the path to files. > The best fix is to have tex fixed. Second best is lyx providing > a workaround. Either approach needs a volunteer - I wonder > why nobody seems to want to fix tex though. > > Helge Hafting > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
