bug#25276: 11.89.8; xetex engine not work when master filename contains space

[Qiang Yin]

Hi Mosè,

1. When run on "foo bar.tex" it returns "\"foo bar\"".
2. When run on "foo.tex" it returns "\"foo\"".

Best,
Qiang

On 2016/12/27 1:27, Mosè Giordano wrote:
> Qiang or anybody using Windows,
>
> can you please tell me what
>
>     M-: (shell-quote-argument (TeX-master-file)) RET
>
> returns in a your "foo bar.tex" buffer?  And what in a file's buffer
> without spaces in its name?  This is, more or less, the command used
> in `TeX-command-expand' to build the compilation command.
>
> Thank you,
> Mosè
>
> 2016-12-26 17:25 GMT+01:00 Mosè Giordano <address@hidden>:
> > Hi Qiang,
> >
> > 2016-12-26 16:34 GMT+01:00 Qiang Yin <address@hidden>:
> > > Hi,
> > > I prefer xetex as my default tex engine. But this will cause a AucTeX
> > > bug when the master filename contains a space.
> > >
> > > The following is a minimal example. It contains only one master file "foo
> > > bar.tex". Notice the filename contains a space. And the content of "foo
> > > bar.tex" is just the following:
> > >
> > > \documentclass{article}
> > > \begin{document}
> > > Hello world
> > > \end{document}
> > > %%% Local Variables:
> > > %%% mode: latex
> > > %%% TeX-master: t
> > > %%% TeX-engine: xetex
> > > %%% End:
> > >
> > > Now if press C-c C-c to compile this file. AucTeX will return the
> > > following error message:
> > >
> > > Running `LaTeX' on `foo bar' with ``xelatex  -file-line-error  --synctex=1
> > > -interaction=nonstopmode "\input" ^"\^"foo bar.tex\^"^"''
> > > This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2016/W32TeX)
> > > (preloaded format=xelatex)
> > >  restricted \write18 enabled.
> > > entering extended mode
> > > LaTeX2e <2016/03/31> patch level 3
> > > Babel <3.9r> and hyphenation patterns for 83 language(s) loaded.
> > > ! I can't find file `'"foo bar.tex"''.
> > > <*> \input '"foo bar.tex"'
> > >
> > > (Press Enter to retry, or Control-Z to exit)
> > > Please type another input file name
> > > ! Emergency stop.
> > > <*> \input '"foo bar.tex"'
> >
> > I cannot reproduce this on GNU/Linux:
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > Running `LaTeX' on `foo bar' with ``xelatex  -file-line-error
> > --synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "\input" \"foo\ bar.tex\"''
> > This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2016)
> > (preloaded format=xelatex)
> >  restricted \write18 enabled.
> > entering extended mode
> > LaTeX2e <2016/03/31> patch level 3
> > Babel <3.9r> and hyphenation patterns for 83 language(s) loaded.
> > (./foo bar.tex (/opt/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> > Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
> > (/opt/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> > No file "foo bar".aux.
> > [1] (./foo bar.aux) )
> > Output written on foo bar.pdf (1 page).
> > SyncTeX written on foo bar.synctex.gz.
> > Transcript written on foo bar.log.
> >
> > TeX Output finished at Mon Dec 26 17:11:20
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> >
> > I see that you're running Emacs on Windows, maybe there is something
> > special to be taken care of on that system.  I find it strange that
> > you experience this problem only with one engine: I didn't check it,
> > but I thought that the expansion of file name doesn't depend on the
> > selected engine.
> >
> > I'll try to have a look, but not using Windows, it's difficult for me.
> > If someone else comes up with a solution, please chime in.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Mosè