[MiKTeX] Re: BibTeX database and spaces in the path?

[Florian S. <Flo...@ju...>]

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Hi Angus,

Am 11 Jul 2005 um 9:13 schrieb Angus Leeming 
(Angus Leeming <mik...@li...>):

> MiKTeX provides pretty good support for referencing external files
> whose path contains spaces. However, I've been unable to work out
> how to get such filenames to work with BibTeX. Is it possible? 

It seems to work with the DOS Alias Name of Directories that don't 
fit the DOS 8.3 schema. For example, instead of 
> \bibdata{"J:/MinSYS/home/Angus/trial_tex/bibtex/sub dir/references"}

\bibdata{"J:/MinSYS/home/Angus/trial_tex/bibtex/subdir~1/references"}

should work. If the "problematic" directory name is longer than five 
characters and there's no other critical (non-8.3) file or directory 
at the same place, the Alias consists of the first six characters 
(without whitespace), followed by ~1. If there are more files with 
identical first six characters, the aliases are xxxxxx~1, xxxxxx~2
and so on. The aliases are displayed with the command dir /X on the
command line.

There remains a problem predicting the DOS alias if the problematic 
file or directory name is shorter than six characters; then the alias 
seems to consist of those characters _plus_ some randomly selected
characters filling up the required six characters before the ~1. For 
Example, a directory named 'A A' has an alias of AAxxxx~1, where the
xxxx characters seem to be chosen randomly.

HTH
Florian
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