[Vim-latex-devel] About Windows filenames...

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Hi!

	I've started recently my adventure with Latex-suite and I wanted to 
thank you for your work - it's a great package - exactly what I need to 
work on LaTeX files plus more. I'm using Windows version of gVim and 
I;ve got one little problem with compiling my .tex's with 'pdflatex'. If 
filename was simple - without any spaces - everything worked well, but I 
like to put some spaces in my filenames (for better esthetic impression 
& much easier identification of my files - long names help to maintain 
good order of work). That's the point where things went bad. Compiler 
refused to cooperate and stopped with a message "Can't find file" or 
something like that. I've started searching for reason of such behavior. 
  Soon I've discovered what it was. Command formed for external process 
of compilation is good for Unix-like systems but not for Windows. 
Windows don't support escape characters (in this case '\' before ' ') 
before whitespaces - instead of this double quotes are used for marking 
filename phrase.  So if I want to compile 'simple example.tex', I should 
use the following command:

<code>
pdflatex "simple example.tex"
</code>

Otherwise 'pdflatex' reports a nasty set of errors :(. Anyway I've told 
you a touchig story ;). I've tried to cope with this situation and this 
is what I've done:
All changes was made in 'ftplugin/latex-suite/compiler.vim'. Originally 
there are two sections in 'function! Tex_CompileLatex()':

<code>
if exists('b:fragmentFile') || mainfname == ''
	let mainfname = escape(expand('%:t'), ' ')
endif
</code>

and

<code>
	exec 'make! '.mainfname
</code>

I've simply replaced these with code that modifies 'mainfname' depending 
on platform.

<code>
" begin of Win32 filenames with spaces modification
if has('win32')
	let mainfname = expand('%:t')
else
	let mainfname = escape(expand('%:t'), ' ')
endif
" end of modification
</code>

and

<code>
" another modification
if has('win32')
	exec 'make! '.'"'.mainfname.'"'
else
	exec 'make! '.mainfname
endif
" end of modification
</code>

That's it. I hope that this one will help. Please be patient if I made 
any mistakes in this mail (most probable I did :) ) - english is not my 
native language :). I'm also new in vim scripting, so I could miss some 
important reasons why mentioned code was written in such way, for what 
I'm sorry, but this modification works now smoothly on my system and I 
think that it could be helpful for other Windows users.

Thanks again for a piece of good, hard work :)
with best wishes and greetings

Bogdan Szczurek
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