File: web2c.info, Node: tex invocation, Next: Initial TeX, Up: TeX 5.1 'tex' invocation ==================== TeX (usually invoked as 'tex') formats the given text and commands, and outputs a corresponding device-independent representation of the typeset document. This section merely describes the options available in the Web2c implementation. For a complete description of the TeX typesetting language, see 'The TeXbook' (*note References::). TeX, Metafont, and MetaPost process the command line (described here) and determine their memory dump (fmt) file in the same way (*note Memory dumps::). Synopses: tex [OPTION]... [TEXNAME[.tex]] [TEX-COMMANDS] tex [OPTION]... \FIRST-LINE tex [OPTION]... &FMT ARGS TeX searches the usual places for the main input file TEXNAME (*note (kpathsea)Supported file formats::), extending TEXNAME with '.tex' if necessary. To see all the relevant paths, set the environment variable 'KPATHSEA_DEBUG' to '-1' before running the program. After TEXNAME is read, TeX processes any remaining TEX-COMMANDS on the command line as regular TeX input. Also, if the first non-option argument begins with a TeX escape character (usually '\'), TeX processes all non-option command-line arguments as a line of regular TeX input. If no arguments or options are specified, TeX prompts for an input file name with '**'. TeX writes the main DVI output to the file 'BASETEXNAME.dvi', where BASETEXNAME is the basename of TEXNAME, or 'texput' if no input file was specified. A DVI file is a device-independent binary representation of your TeX document. The idea is that after running TeX, you translate the DVI file using a separate program to the commands for a particular output device, such as a PostScript printer (*note Introduction: (dvips)Top.) or an X Window System display (see xdvi(1)). TeX also reads TFM files for any fonts you load in your document with the '\font' primitive. By default, it runs an external program named 'mktextfm' to create any nonexistent TFM files. You can disable this at configure-time or runtime (*note (kpathsea)mktex configuration::). This is enabled mostly for the sake of the EC fonts, which can be generated at any size. TeX can write output files, via the '\openout' primitive; this opens a security hole vulnerable to Trojan horse attack: an unwitting user could run a TeX program that overwrites, say, '~/.rhosts'. (MetaPost has a 'write' primitive with similar implications). To alleviate this and similar problems the functions 'kpathsea_out_name_ok' and 'kpathsea_in_name_ok' from the Kpathsea library (*note (kpathsea)Calling sequence::) are used to determine if a given filename is acceptable to be opened for output or input, depending on the setting of the configuration variables 'openout_any' and 'openin_any': 'a' (for "any", the default for 'openin_any'), 'r' (for "restricted"), or 'p' (for "paranoid", the default for 'openout_any'). In any case, all '\openout' filenames are recorded in the log file, except those opened on the first line of input, which is processed when the log file has not yet been opened. The program accepts the following options, as well as the standard '-help' and '-version' (*note Common options::): '-enc' '-[no]-file-line-error' '-fmt=FMTNAME' '-halt-on-error' '-ini' '-interaction=STRING' '-ipc' '-ipc-start' '-jobname=STRING' '-kpathsea-debug=NUMBER' '-[no]parse-first-line' '-output-directory' '-progname=STRING' '-recorder' '-translate-file=TCXFILE' '-8bit' These options are common to TeX, Metafont, and MetaPost. *Note Common options::. '-enc' Enable encTeX extensions, such as '\mubyte'. This can be used to support the Unicode UTF-8 input encoding, although using an engine with native Unicode support is more common nowadays. <http://www.olsak.net/enctex.html>. '-ipc' '-ipc-start' With either option, TeX writes its DVI output to a socket as well as to the usual '.dvi' file. With '-ipc-start', TeX also opens a server program at the other end to read the output. *Note IPC and TeX: IPC and TeX. These options are available only if the '--enable-ipc' option was specified to 'configure' during installation of Web2c. '-mktex=FILETYPE' '-no-mktex=FILETYPE' Turn on or off the 'mktex' script associated with FILETYPE. For TeX proper, FILETYPE can only be 'tex' and 'tfm', but for pdfTeX and luaTeX, it can also be 'pk'. '-mltex' If we are 'INITEX' (*note Initial and virgin::), enable MLTeX extensions such as '\charsubdef'. Implicitly set if the program name is 'mltex'. *Note MLTeX: MLTeX. '-output-comment=STRING' Use STRING as the DVI file comment. Ordinarily, this comment records the date and time of the TeX run, but if you are doing regression testing, you may not want the DVI file to have this spurious difference. This is also taken from the environment variable and config file value 'output_comment'. '-shell-escape' '-no-shell-escape' '-shell-restricted' Enable, or disable, or enable with restrictions the '\write18{SHELL-COMMAND}' feature for external executing shell commands. *Note Shell escapes::. '-enable-write18' '-disable-write18' Synonyms for '-shell-escape' and '-no-shell-escape', for compatibility with MiKTeX. (MiKTeX also accepts both pairs of options.) *Note Shell escapes::. '-src-specials' '-src-specials=STRING' This option makes TeX output specific source information using '\special' commands in the DVI file. These '\special' track the current file name and line number. Using the first form of this option, the '\special' commands are inserted automatically. In the second form of the option, STRING is a comma separated list of the following values: 'cr', 'display', 'hbox', 'math', 'par', 'parend', 'vbox'. You can use this list to specify where you want TeX to output such commands. For example, '-src-specials=cr,math' will output source information every line and every math formula. These commands can be used with the appropriate DVI viewer and text editor to switch from the current position in the editor to the same position in the viewer and back from the viewer to the editor. This option works by inserting '\special' commands into the token stream, and thus in principle these additional tokens can be recovered or seen by the tricky-enough macros. If you run across a case, let us know, because this counts as a bug. However, such bugs are very hard to fix, requiring significant changes to TeX, so please don't count on it. Redefining '\special' will not affect the functioning of this option. The commands inserted into the token stream are hard-coded to always use the '\special' primitive. TeX does not pass the trip test when this option is enabled.
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