Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2476 in lilypond: using blanks in -doptions values

[lilypond]

Comment #2 on issue 2476 by address@hidden: using blanks in -doptions  
values
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2476

quoting with single quotes does not work under windows.

using
lilypond   "-dinclude-settings="""myInit 2.ly"""" test.ly
lilypond   -d"include-settings="""myInit 2.ly"""" test.ly
lilypond   -dinclude-settings=""""myInit 2.ly"""" test.ly

all work - I'm not going to explain why.

I'm not sure if there are other combinations that work.

similarly
lilypond -d"paper-size="""a4"""" test.ly
lilypond -dpaper-size=""""a4"""" test.ly

work as well as the escaping version
lilypond -dpaper-size=\"a4\" test.ly

in Windows there are many situations where it's not clear which escape  
character is needed (\ or ^ has never been clearly documented by Microsoft)  
- that's why I think a "simple" but always working solution should be  
preferred!

and for the question where the blanks may occur - in the path or in the  
file name - the answer is yes, for both.

of course, different OSs allow different solutions, but I don't think it's  
LilyPond's task to show them all.

yes and the 3 quotes are quite usual in many languages, because using only  
2 would yield a blank string with a string following and another blank  
string would close it. using 3 quotes would make the quoted quote a  
surviving quote and so on …

that's why I'm only asking for this little note to be added! (if this works  
in all OSs)

please feel free to add more explanations