1PDFJADETEX(1)               General Commands Manual              PDFJADETEX(1)
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NAME

6       pdfjadetex - PDF output from JadeTeX
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SYNOPSIS

9       pdfjadetex [options] [commands]
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DESCRIPTION

12       This manual page was derived from the manual page for pdfTeX and is not
13       meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documentation for this version of
14       TeX  can  be  found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementa‐
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17       pdfjadeTeX is a version of TeX that can create PDF files as well as DVI
18       files.
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20       The  typical use of pdfjadeTeX is with a pregenerated formats for which
21       PDF output has been enabled.  The pdfjadetex command uses  the  equiva‐
22       lent of the plain JadeTeX format.
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24       pdfjadeTeX's  handling of its command-line arguments is similar to that
25       of LaTeX.
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OPTIONS

28       This version of  pdfjadeTeX  understands  the  following  command  line
29       options.
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31       --fmt format
32              Use  format as the name of the format to be used, instead of the
33              name by which pdfjadeTeX was called or a %& line.
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35       --help Print help message and exit.
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37       --ini  Be pdfinitex, for dumping formats; this is  implicitly  true  if
38              the program is called as pdfinitex.
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40       --interaction mode
41              Sets  the  interaction  mode.  The mode can be one of batchmode,
42              nonstopmode, scrollmode,  and  errorstopmode.   The  meaning  of
43              these modes is the same as that of the corresponding \commands.
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45       --ipc  Send  DVI  or PDF output to a socket as well as the usual output
46              file.  Whether this option is available is the choice of the in‐
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49       --ipc-start
50              As  --ipc,  and  starts  the  server  at  the other end as well.
51              Whether this option is available is the choice of the installer.
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53       --kpathsea-debug bitmask
54              Sets path searching debugging flags according  to  the  bitmask.
55              See the Kpathsea manual for details.
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57       --maketex fmt
58              Enable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.
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60       --no-maketex fmt
61              Disable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.
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63       --output-comment string
64              Use string for the DVI file comment instead of the date.
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66       --progname name
67              Pretend  to  be program name.  This affects both the format used
68              and the search paths.
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70       --shell-escape
71              Enable the \write18{command} construct.  The command can be  any
72              Bourne shell command.  This construct is normally disallowed for
73              security reasons.
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75       --version
76              Print version information and exit.
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ENVIRONMENT

79       See the Kpathsearch library documentation  (the  `Path  specifications'
80       node)  for  precise  details of how the environment variables are used.
81       The kpsewhich utility can be used to query the values of the variables.
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83       One caveat: In most pdfjadeTeX formats, you cannot use ~ in a  filename
84       you  give directly to pdfjadeTeX, because ~ is an active character, and
85       hence is expanded, not taken as part of the filename.  Other  programs,
86       such as Metafont, do not have this problem.
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88       TEXMFOUTPUT
89              Normally, pdfjadeTeX puts its output files in the current direc‐
90              tory.  If any output file cannot be opened there,  it  tries  to
91              open  it  in the directory specified in the environment variable
92              TEXMFOUTPUT.  There is no default value for that variable.   For
93              example,  if  you say tex paper and the current directory is not
94              writable, if TEXMFOUTPUT has the value /tmp, pdfjadeTeX attempts
95              to  create  /tmp/paper.log (and /tmp/paper.pdf, if any output is
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98       TEXINPUTS
99              Search path for \input and \openin files.  This should  probably
100              start  with  ``.'',  so  that user files are found before system
101              files.
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103       TEXFONTS
104              Search path for font metric (.tfm) files.
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106       TEXFORMATS
107              Search path for format files.
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109       TEXPOOL
110              search path for pdfinitex internal strings.
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112       TEXEDIT
113              Command template for switching to editor.  The default,  usually
114              vi, is set when pdfjadeTeX is compiled.
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FILES

117       The location of the files mentioned below varies from system to system.
118       Use the kpsewhich utility to find their locations.
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120       pdfjadetex.pool
121              Encoded text of pdfjadeTeX's messages.
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123       texfonts.map
124              Filename mapping definitions.
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126       *.tfm  Metric files for pdfjadeTeX's fonts.
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128       *.fmt  Predigested pdfjadeTeX format (.fmt) files.
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BUGS

131       This version of pdfjadeTeX  fails  to  trap  arithmetic  overflow  when
132       dimensions  are added or subtracted.  Cases where this occurs are rare,
133       but when it does the generated DVI file will be invalid.
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SEE ALSO

136       jadetex(1), tex(1), mf(1), undump(1).
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AUTHORS

139       The author of pdfjadeTeX is Sebastian Rahtz.
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141       This manual page was derived by Marcus Brinkmann for the Debian distri‐
142       bution  from  the  pdfTeX  manual  page  from the teTeX distribution by
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147Marcus Brinkmann                 12 July 1998                    PDFJADETEX(1)