Filename quoting issue with asymptote.sty and lualatex about asymptote

[lfourquaux]

This is with TeXLive 2016.

[lfourquaux]

It looks like this is fixed in current TL 2016.

[u-fischer]

I don't think that the issue is fixed. On tex.sx there just has been a similar question: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/376401/asymptote-package-works-with-pdflatex-and-xelatex-but-problems-with-lualatex,

And the asymptote.sty you get with texlive (2016/11/14 v1.32) still contains in various places quotes around the main part of a graphic. E.g "\AsyFile".pdf, and luatex doesn't like this (it isn't a problem of the graphicx drivers, it doesn't work with primitives either).

[johncbowman]

The quotes are necessary in order to handle file names containing spaces, which many users unfortunately insist on. If you remove the quotes, lualatex will work, but only with file names that do not contain spaces. I will check to see if lualatex in TeXLive 2017 has been fixed to discard quotation marks.

[u-fischer]

It still fails. But users that wants to use spaces can use the grffile package:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{grffile}
\begin{document}
\includegraphics{test space.pdf}

\includegraphics{test space} 
\end{document}

[matthuszagh]

This issue persists in texlive-2019. Maybe a reasonable compromise would be to commit something like the patch mentioned in this issue and require that luatex users use grffile if they want spaces in their files? At least that way the base case would work with luatex.

[johncbowman]

It turns out that a patched version of grffile now supports all TeXengines (including lualatex, xelatex, latex as well as pdflatex). So the simplest solution is to use grffile. I have committed this
as revision 41cc1fa, but I still have to update asymptote.sty.

[u-fischer]

This week patch level 2 of the current latex will be released, which will contain significant changes in the file name handling of graphicx. grffile will then be no longer needed, the package will be made to a no-op package.

[matthuszagh]

@johncbowman I'm experiencing the following issues when attempting to build asymptote:

Package asymptote Warning: file `latexusage-1.tex' not found on input line 76.
Package asymptote Warning: file `latexusage-2.tex' not found on input line 93.
Package asymptote Warning: file `latexusage-3.tex' not found on input line 117.

Is this possibly related to the pending changes to asymptote.sty?

[johncbowman]

That is normal. The next step generates those files (see LaTeX usage in the manual): asy latexusage-*.asy

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[matthuszagh]

EDIT

The latest commits fix the issue for me. Thanks for the fixes!

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Thanks for the clarification on that. I thought that may have been causing the error I'm getting when building latexusage.pdf, but I guess it's something else. I'm seeing this

[...]
tex/latex/latexconfig/epstopdf-sys.cfg)) (./latexusage-1.tex)
! Missing } inserted.
<inserted text>
                }
l.76 \end{asy}

?
! Emergency stop.
<inserted text>
                }
l.76 \end{asy}

!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

Have you encountered this?