Re: Export to pdf when path name has ~

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Stig Brautaset <stig@brautaset.org> writes:

> And, indeed, running pdflatex on that file works perfectly fine from the shell:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> 17:37:57 /tmp> /Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex ~/Org/TODO.tex
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (/Users/stig/Org/TODO.tex
> LaTeX2e <2015/01/01>
>
> [...]
>
> Output written on TODO.pdf (10 pages, 206446 bytes).
> Transcript written on TODO.log.
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
>
> ... except if you use the full path (rather than the symlink), in which case
> pdflatex chockes on the filename:
>
> #+begin_example
> 17:27:25 /tmp> pdflatex "/Users/stig/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Org/TODO.tex"
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> ! I can't find file `"/Users/stig/Library/Mobile Documents/com"'.
> <to be read again> 
>                    \protect 
> <*> "/Users/stig/Library/Mobile Documents/com~
>                                               apple~CloudDocs/Org/TODO.tex"

Indeed. It seems pdflatex doesn't like the ~ sign excepted at the
beginning of the filename. It doesn't seem to be Org related though.

In any case, I'm wondering if we really need to send the full canonical
path (as returned by `file-truename') of the tex file to the pdflatex
process.

For example, we could set `default-directory' to the directory of the
tex file and provide only relative filename with %f. If needed, %F may
be used for the full path. I don't think it would introduce
incompatibilities.

WDYT?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou