Texworks issues with files with spaces

Question

I noticed when my .tex file names contain spaces, that TeXworks (on Windows) is having issues when I try to typeset the document.

Even putting the $fullname argument in quotes (like this "$fullname") doesn't seem to work.

For example when using the file name Spaces in file name.tex and my custom latexmk tool (chain):

I get this output:

Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 19 Jan. 2017, version: 4.52c.

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Latexmk: Could not find file [Spaces].
-- Use the -f option to force complete processing.

Weirdly enough using the default pdfLaTeX tool (chain) works.

Note: No difference whether I put $fullname in quotes or not

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, where I wrote a batch file which I want to execute from TeXworks, with $fullname as a parameter. the batchfile looked like this:

someprogram "%1"

yet the program failed to find the file when it contains spaces. I solved the problem by using two pairs of quotation marks:

someprogram ""%1""