PDFJADETEX(1) General Commands Manual PDFJADETEX(1)
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 ver-
sion 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 equiv-
alent 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 install-
er.
--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.
Marcus Brinkmann 12 July 1998 PDFJADETEX(1)