Fwd: Fwd: REVIEW REQUEST - user manual generation

[Gavin Smith]

On 27 April 2016 at 22:33, Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The solution is presumably to avoid using an absolute path.
>
> The space in filename problem is not sh lack of quoting. This is a TeX
> limitation of \input. \input gets the filname up to the first space or
> \relax. I will investigate whether catcoding the space to be a letter
> can solve it. Anyway, here is a first attempt to fix that.
>
> Please note that when you have the -t parameter, then texi2dvi will make
> the path absolute, even though it is passed relative.

That's what the problem seems to be. I wonder whether it's really
necessary to use an absolute path. 'input_file_name_decode' sets
'in_input' to the absolute path. In 'run_tex', there is a fix for
paths containing spaces and/or other dodgy characters, but only for
--tidy.