From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: spaces in file names
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:59:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30BDCE76-5675-44C8-B517-D65E9AEEB455@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <901906F1-CFC7-4A9A-8909-8CEAC0E7006C@uva.nl>
On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:34 PM, Hans van der Meer wrote:
> Odd by the way, that so many people apparently refrain from using spaces in directory and file names, because this did not surface earlier. It can make things a lot more readable. The habit of avoiding spaces is probably a holdover from old times where OS's were much more restrictive in filenaming.
I prefer to work with my computer, not against it. Whenever you want to script something or do something remotely, spaces in file names give you nothing but grief. And I don't think "My Stuff" is so much more readable than "My-Stuff" or "My_Stuff" or ... But to each their own, I guess, if you think that spaces in filenames are so 2010 and avoiding them old hat.
Thomas
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-13 10:51 Hans van der Meer
2010-01-13 10:55 ` luigi scarso
2010-01-13 11:12 ` Hans van der Meer
2010-01-13 11:16 ` luigi scarso
2010-01-13 11:26 ` Hans van der Meer
2010-01-13 11:30 ` luigi scarso
2010-01-13 11:32 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-01-13 11:38 ` Hans van der Meer
2010-01-13 11:42 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-01-13 13:23 ` Peter Rolf
2010-01-13 15:35 ` Otared Kavian
2010-01-13 16:30 ` Hans van der Meer
2010-01-13 17:59 ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-13 19:34 ` Hans van der Meer
2010-01-13 19:46 ` Hans van der Meer
2010-01-13 20:39 ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-14 20:16 ` Text backgrounds once again Matthias Weber
2010-01-14 20:55 ` Text backgrounds once again (follow-up) Matthias Weber
2010-01-14 21:39 ` Willi Egger
2010-01-14 21:45 ` Matthias Weber
2010-01-14 22:15 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-01-15 12:58 ` Matthias Weber
2010-01-14 21:48 ` NOT reusing figures Matthias Weber
2010-01-14 22:36 ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-15 0:58 ` Matthias Weber
2010-01-15 15:26 ` reusing figures ok - problem with hiding blocks in MKIV Matthias Weber
2010-01-18 9:00 ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-22 15:19 ` More questions about hiding/reusing blocks Matthias Weber
2010-01-22 15:55 ` Calligraphic letters in Mark IV Matthias Weber
2010-01-22 17:29 ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-22 17:49 ` Matthias Weber
2010-01-22 17:53 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-01-22 18:14 ` Matthias Weber
2010-01-22 18:20 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-01-24 13:34 ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-24 21:17 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-01-24 22:45 ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-24 16:57 ` More questions about hiding/reusing blocks Hans Hagen
[not found] ` <A4C3BD19-AAE4-4033-AA0E-A2C2DB586BFB@indiana.edu>
2010-01-25 0:15 ` Hans Hagen
2010-01-14 2:00 ` spaces in file names Vladimir Lomov
2010-01-13 19:59 ` Thomas A. Schmitz [this message]
2010-01-13 20:32 ` Hans Hagen
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