(Win10) LyX and SumatraPDF: spaces in filename become underscores

Stef Pillaert · Post by **Stef Pillaert** » Wed Dec 18, 2019 10:34 am

Hello,
see the title of this topic. How can this be avoided?
Thanks,
Stef

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Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Wed Dec 18, 2019 5:37 pm

Hi Stef!

Can you tell more details? Does it happen in text, in captions, in verbatim text, or in listing environments?

Perhaps post a small LyX file here, that shows the issue, and a pdfLaTeX export file.

Stefan

Stef Pillaert · Post by **Stef Pillaert** » Wed Dec 18, 2019 5:47 pm

Sorry, I should have been more clear: when I have a file with the name "text version 1.lyx", and I use sumatraPFD as the viewer for LyX ("ctrl-R"), the output appears in sumatraPDF. But it appears as a file with the name "text_version_1.pdf". This is a bit annoying, esp. if I want to save the pdf from within sumatraPDF.
When I export directly from Lyx (via file menu->export in LyX, so without viewing in sumatrapdf), then this doesn't happen: I get a file "text version 1.pdf".
(Maybe Win10-related?)
Stef

Bruno2020 · Post by **Bruno2020** » Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:33 pm

Hello Stef,

you are not alone!

But this is neither Win10-related nor a problem of Sumatra: On my pc running Mint19.3 Cinnamon / texlive2019 / Lyx 2.3.3 (from ppa) / xreader, blanks and umlaut and "ß" in the name of a file are replaced by underscores - see attached Lyx-example and screenshot of the folder.

So it's either a bug in Lyx or an error in our settings.

Bruno2020

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