From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Stanton Subject: Re: Problem exporting to PDF (and viewing) Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 22:33:16 -0700 Message-ID: <40C7B1BFC291ED4E9D10436D07736A33470478B3F2@EXMAIL7.haas.uc.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STnuO-0006UU-Cl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 01:33:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STnuM-0006fC-MW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 01:33:23 -0400 Received: from gateway-a.haas.berkeley.edu ([128.32.222.29]:54886) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STnuM-0006er-Gc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 01:33:22 -0400 Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" Achim Gratz writes=20 > Richard Stanton writes: > > While this seems to have something to do with the bash shell I'm > > using, this works fine for everything else, so I'm pretty sure there's > > no fundamental problem in my setup, and it would be nice to find a way > > around this problem. >=20 > I am pretty sure there is some fundamental problem, but you never told > us what exactly your setup is. >=20 > FWIW, I sometimes get these doubled up prefix paths since I installed > cygwin-setup and cygwin-mount from the EmacsWiki in operations that are > completely unrelated to org (I haven't had time to investigate), but > then it works for the same path if I try the same thing a bit later. > Also, as has been mentioned before, you might want to check where the > string "c:\dropbox\org" comes from, since Emacs would normally expand it > as "c:/dropbox/org", so it seems likely that you pull it in via a > Windows environment variable or it is quoted once too many. Lastly, it > is not a good idea to give such DOS paths with "\" to bash, as bash has > totally different quoting rules than DOS cmd. Thanks. I'm using Cygwin bash under Windows Vista, and suspect you may have= a point about the directory separator, though nowhere in my init.el do I u= se a backslash. Anyway, I'll give it a check and see what I can find.