[tex-live] problems with spaces under windows

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 12:58:56 CEST 2011


On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:27, T T wrote:
>
> Where does these double quotes in the attached screenshot come from?
> Did you set the PATH yourself or using the installer/tlmgr?

Here's the log of what happens when absolutely no path is set (but the
command is being run from the folder with binaries which take
precedence oven MikTeX ones). I get the same behaviour if I set the
path manually.

C:\>echo %PATH%
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64;C:\Program Files
(x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex/bin;C:\Programi\MinGW\bin;C:\Program
Files\Rruby\bin;C:\Windows\sy
stem32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0

C:\>cd "Program Files\TeX Live 2\bin\win32"

C:\Program Files\TeX Live 2\bin\win32>tlmgr install metapost
tlmgr: package repository http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest
'""C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
[1/2, ??:??/??:??] install: metapost.win32 [156k]
'""C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
[2/2, 00:02/00:31] install: metapost [2300k]
'""C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'""C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
tlmgr: package log updated at C:/Program Files/TeX Live
2/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
running mktexlsr ...
done running mktexlsr.
running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --enable Map=troff-updmap.map ...
done running updmap-sys --nomkmap --nohash --enable Map=troff-updmap.map.
running updmap-sys ...

updmap-sys failed (status 1), output:
Config file: "C:/Program Files/TeX Live 2/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg"
dvips output dir: "C:/Program Files/TeX Live 2/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap"
pdftex output dir: "C:/Program Files/TeX Live
2/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap"

c:/Program Files/TeX Live 2/texmf/scripts/tetex/updmap.pl is creating
new map files
using the following configuration:
  LW35 font names                  : URWkb
  prefer outlines                  : true
  texhash enabled                  : true
  download standard fonts (dvips)  : false
  download standard fonts (pdftex) : true

Scanning for LW35 support files  [  3 files]
Scanning for MixedMap entries    [  7 files]
Scanning for Map entries
ERROR:  The following map file(s) couldn't be found:
        troff-updmap.map

        Did you run mktexlsr?

        You can delete non-existent map entries using the option
          --syncwithtrees.

         [  2 files]

C:\Program Files\TeX Live 2\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:575: command
failed with exit code 1:
perl.exe "c:/Program Files/TeX Live 2/texmf/scripts/tetex/updmap.pl"

tlmgr: exiting unsuccessfully (status 1).

C:\Program Files\TeX Live 2\bin\win32>

Mojca


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