From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/55550 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: spaces in file names Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:59:13 +0100 Message-ID: <30BDCE76-5675-44C8-B517-D65E9AEEB455@uni-bonn.de> References: <14AAC5F8-22CF-43BC-ABAE-6D91B734A8D5@uva.nl> <01B55BA4-FE4A-4AA6-83F6-695CB56A4190@gmail.com> <2B222B03-0FDD-41C0-BF46-265F683B7C8B@uva.nl> <4B4E09FA.4000307@wxs.nl> <901906F1-CFC7-4A9A-8909-8CEAC0E7006C@uva.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263412829 10546 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2010 20:00:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:00:29 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 13 21:00:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NV9NX-0007s1-AD for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:59:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 154D3C9C93; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:59:44 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id pqXMaerrZGMz; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:59:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD94C9C80; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:59:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C78C9C80 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:59:40 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id PkwZeFP9YlAj for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:59:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from uni-bonn.de (mail.uni-bonn.de [131.220.15.113]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47EBBC9C7E for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:59:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [87.178.126.78] (account tschmit1@uni-bonn.de HELO [192.168.0.2]) by fe2.uni-bonn.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.12) with ESMTPA id 30671889 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:59:28 +0100 In-Reply-To: <901906F1-CFC7-4A9A-8909-8CEAC0E7006C@uva.nl> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:55550 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________