Re: spaces in html file names...

["Kevin D. Colby" <kevin marcal com>]

Paul Brady wrote:
> 
> I use Webworks Publisher to convert framemaker files to HTML. Some of the
> resulting names are large and contain spaces...like this one:
> 
> "User GuideTOC.fm.html"

DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!

> This should translate into:
> "User%20GuideTOC.fm.html"

Yick!  A kludge, at best.

> Any way around this without renaming 6000 files?

Are the framemaker files named in this manner?
If not, complain to Webworks.
If they are, rename them first--then convert.

You could have a shell script easily rename them
without the spaces, but refernces within the
files may then be broken.  Of course, a shell
script could fix those too (using 'sed'), but
sheesh, what a mess.

Using spaces in filename for webpages is _begging_
for problems.  If there's no easy way to head this
off in Webworks or prior to there, write the
shell scripts and change them.  I'd replace the
spaces with underscores ("User_GuideTOC.fm.html",
although really, I'd also take out the ".fm" part).
I think filenames should be easy to understand and
not have superfluous extensions.  If it's HTML,
then it's ".html".  The ".fm" is pointless.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevin marcal com