NAME¶
pdfjadetex - PDF output from JadeTeX
SYNOPSIS¶
pdfjadetex [
options] [
commands]
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page was derived from the manual page for pdfTeX and is not meant to
be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found
in the info file or manual
Web2C: A TeX implementation.
pdfjadeTeX is a version of TeX that can create
PDF files as well as
DVI files.
The typical use of pdfjadeTeX is with a pregenerated formats for which PDF
output has been enabled. The
pdfjadetex command uses the equivalent of
the plain JadeTeX format.
pdfjadeTeX's handling of its command-line arguments is similar to that of LaTeX.
OPTIONS¶
This version of pdfjadeTeX understands the following command line options.
- --fmt format
- Use format as the name of the format to be used, instead of the
name by which pdfjadeTeX was called or a %& line.
- --help
- Print help message and exit.
- --ini
- Be pdfinitex, for dumping formats; this is implicitly true if the
program is called as pdfinitex.
- --interaction mode
- Sets the interaction mode. The mode can be one of batchmode,
nonstopmode, scrollmode, and errorstopmode. The
meaning of these modes is the same as that of the corresponding
\commands.
- --ipc
- Send DVI or PDF output to a socket as well as the usual output file.
Whether this option is available is the choice of the installer.
- --ipc-start
- As --ipc, and starts the server at the other end as well. Whether
this option is available is the choice of the installer.
- --kpathsea-debug bitmask
- Sets path searching debugging flags according to the bitmask. See the
Kpathsea manual for details.
- --maketex fmt
- Enable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or
tfm.
- --no-maketex fmt
- Disable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or
tfm.
- --output-comment string
- Use string for the DVI file comment instead of the date.
- --progname name
- Pretend to be program name. This affects both the format used and
the search paths.
- --shell-escape
- Enable the \write18{command} construct. The
command can be any Bourne shell command. This construct is normally
disallowed for security reasons.
- --version
- Print version information and exit.
ENVIRONMENT¶
See the Kpathsearch library documentation (the `Path specifications' node) for
precise details of how the environment variables are used. The
kpsewhich utility can be used to query the values of the variables.
One caveat: In most pdfjadeTeX formats, you cannot use ~ in a filename you give
directly to pdfjadeTeX, because ~ is an active character, and hence is
expanded, not taken as part of the filename. Other programs, such as Metafont,
do not have this problem.
- TEXMFOUTPUT
- Normally, pdfjadeTeX puts its output files in the current directory. If
any output file cannot be opened there, it tries to open it in the
directory specified in the environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT. There is no
default value for that variable. For example, if you say tex paper
and the current directory is not writable, if TEXMFOUTPUT has the value
/tmp, pdfjadeTeX attempts to create /tmp/paper.log (and
/tmp/paper.pdf, if any output is produced.)
- TEXINPUTS
- Search path for \input and \openin files. This should
probably start with ``.'', so that user files are found before system
files.
- TEXFONTS
- Search path for font metric (.tfm) files.
- TEXFORMATS
- Search path for format files.
- TEXPOOL
- search path for pdfinitex internal strings.
- TEXEDIT
- Command template for switching to editor. The default, usually vi,
is set when pdfjadeTeX is compiled.
FILES¶
The location of the files mentioned below varies from system to system. Use the
kpsewhich utility to find their locations.
- pdfjadetex.pool
- Encoded text of pdfjadeTeX's messages.
- texfonts.map
- Filename mapping definitions.
- *.tfm
- Metric files for pdfjadeTeX's fonts.
- *.fmt
- Predigested pdfjadeTeX format (.fmt) files.
BUGS¶
This version of pdfjadeTeX fails to trap arithmetic overflow when dimensions are
added or subtracted. Cases where this occurs are rare, but when it does the
generated
DVI file will be invalid.
SEE ALSO¶
jadetex(1),
tex(1),
mf(1),
undump(1).
AUTHORS¶
The author of pdfjadeTeX is Sebastian Rahtz.
This manual page was derived by Marcus Brinkmann for the Debian distribution
from the pdfTeX manual page from the teTeX distribution by Thomas Esser.