support space in path

[jlaurens]

The application breaks when the absolute path contains a space.

[gimsieke]

This seems to be a duplicate of #18, which is purportedly fixed. Can you provide some more details such as operating system, shell, the name of the directory that you are in, and the invocation command line?

[jlaurens]

System: MacOS 15.5
latest official d2t from 2025/05

[gimsieke]

From which directory are you invoking d2t?

Please do also paste the command line with all arguments, including the filename/path of the docx file.

[jlaurens]

shell: bash, python subprocess

various calls don't work when the absolute path contains a space
d2t -o ≤RELATIVE OUTPUT≥ ≤RELATIVE INPUT≥
d2t -o "≤ABSOLUTE OUTPUT≥" "≤ABSOLUTE INPUT≥"

[gimsieke]

Have you tried it from the command line?

[gimsieke]

Can you invoke it with -d for debug and paste your invocation and the messages that appear?

[jlaurens]

Command

../../docx2tex/d2t -d -o 001-test.tex 001.docx

Output

./../docx2tex/d2t -d -o 001-test.tex 001.docx 
starting docx2tex
debug mode: yes
storing debug files to /Users/[...]/Enseignement 2025/[...]/Work/programme-cycle-4-621.dir/pages/001-test.tex/001.debug

Parameters
  workdir: /Users/[...]/Enseignement 2025/[...]/Work/docx2tex
  outdir: /Users/[...]/Enseignement 2025/[...]/Work/programme-cycle-4-621.dir/pages/001-test.tex
  file: 001.docx
  config: /[...]/Enseignement 2025/[...]/Work/docx2tex/conf/conf.csv
  MathType source: ole
  refs and labels: yes
  table model: 
  draw table grid lines: 
  custom evolve-hub: 
  custom xslt: 
  Java heap: 1400m

Errors encountered while running docx2tex. Please see /Users/[...]/Enseignement 2025/[...]/Work/programme-cycle-4-621.dir/pages/001-test.tex/001.d2t.log for details.

log file

../../docx2tex/d2t: line 217: /Users/[...]/Enseignement: No such file or directory

[mkraetke]

@jlaurens Thanks for providing the log. I wasn’t able to reproduce the issue, so it may be specific to macOS. Please give me a moment, I’ll arrange a MacBook from our IT department and try to reproduce it there.

[mkraetke]

Unfortunately, I was not able to reproduce the issue. I've tried on Mac OS X and got no issues with whitespaces in filenames or directories. However, I noted that you have some brackets around the parenthesis in your shell output. You could to clone the latest snapshot and try with it.

[jlaurens]

@mkraetke
I forgot to mention that [...] are just placeholders to hide sensitive informations that are private. These are just normal path components without space.

[gimsieke]

The issue can be reporoduced (on my WSL2 Ubuntu) when the directory that d2t resides in contains a space in its name. I resolved one issue in the most recent commit, but there are more issues with calabash.sh that I couldn’t resolve yet. One part of the solution is to make an array of JAVA_OPTS and maybe turn CATALOGS into a semicolon-separated list of URIs (with hex-escaped spaces). But this wasn’t the solution, or at least it wasn’t the complete solution. There is still an error when I invoke calabas/calabash.sh:

Error: Could not find or load main class
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:

Need to further investigate. For the time being, you can move the directory that contains d2t to another location that doesn’t have a space in its path.