From 04f71516841ff8108c9d5d9d7b8ab2bfa6952f31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck@lyx.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 11:52:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Improve error message.

---
 src/Buffer.cpp | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Buffer.cpp b/src/Buffer.cpp
index 7569a4ec12..ee27f8f69d 100644
--- a/src/Buffer.cpp
+++ b/src/Buffer.cpp
@@ -4363,7 +4363,9 @@ Buffer::ExportStatus Buffer::doExport(string const & target, bool put_in_tempdir
 	} else if (!lyxrc.tex_allows_spaces
 		   && contains(filePath(), ' ')) {
 		Alert::error(_("File name error"),
-			   _("The directory path to the document cannot contain spaces."));
+			bformat(_("The directory path to the document\n%1$s\n"
+			    "contains spaces, but your TeX installation does "
+			    "not allow them."), from_ascii(filePath())));
 		return ExportTexPathHasSpaces;
 	} else {
 		runparams.nice = false;
-- 
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