1PDFJADETEX(1) General Commands Manual PDFJADETEX(1)
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6 pdfjadetex - PDF output from JadeTeX
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9 pdfjadetex [options] [commands]
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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
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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‐
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24 pdfjadeTeX's handling of its command-line arguments is similar to that
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28 This version of pdfjadeTeX understands the following command line
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31 --fmt format
32 Use format as the name of the format to be used, instead of the
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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
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40 --interaction mode
41 Sets the interaction mode. The mode can be one of batchmode,
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45 --ipc Send DVI or PDF output to a socket as well as the usual output
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50 As --ipc, and starts the server at the other end as well.
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53 --kpathsea-debug bitmask
54 Sets path searching debugging flags according to the bitmask.
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57 --maketex fmt
58 Enable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.
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61 Disable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.
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64 Use string for the DVI file comment instead of the date.
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67 Pretend to be program name. This affects both the format used
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71 Enable the \write18{command} construct. The command can be any
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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
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93 example, if you say tex paper and the current directory is not
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99 Search path for \input and \openin files. This should probably
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104 Search path for font metric (.tfm) files.
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113 Command template for switching to editor. The default, usually
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120 pdfjadetex.pool
121 Encoded text of pdfjadeTeX's messages.
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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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131 This version of pdfjadeTeX fails to trap arithmetic overflow when
132 dimensions are added or subtracted. Cases where this occurs are rare,
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136 jadetex(1), tex(1), mf(1), undump(1).
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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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